At Fever Pitch fishing London: The Batchworth Press

London: The Batchworth Press

Oblong format (155 x 225 mm)

Printed on thick ragged paper

Signed by Sir Stirling Moss and Alan Henry on the title page

binding signed at top left corner of verso of front free endpaper

At Fever Pitch fishing London: The Batchworth PressLondon: Andre Deutsch, 1959. First Edition. Original burgundy cloth boards, gilt titles to spine, with the excellent and unclipped, pictorial dust jacket, by Robert Micklewright (1923 2013). Without old inscriptions or other internal markings. Slight fading to spine of the jacket. A near fine copy. Gay interest novel set in a fictional British colony on the edge of independence; the central character is Lieut. Michael Glyn, an young English subaltern