Across Watergate Short split at the top

Short split at the top of the front panel at joint with spine

Publisher's original burgundy cloth with silver title lettering to spine

The Ingoldsby Legends is an anthology of myths

and the inscriptions of the Achaemenid Persian king Darius I (r

Across Watergate Short split at the topLondon: Methuen, 1986. First UK Edition. Slim 8vo. pp 138. Pale blue paper covered boards with black cloth spine. With the excellent and unclipped dust jacket. No old inscriptions. A near fine copy. 'Across' was originally published in German in 1983 under the title 'Der Chinese des Schmerzes'. The Austrian author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019 "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and