Chatto & Windus, 1972, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Good, First

Blue coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper with pink and white coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to backstrip. Is black and white photograph of author to the rear fold over panel. Hannah Gonen is a wife of a geologist at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. But, neither her outwardly successful life or relationship with her husband Michael are fulfilling, so she retreats to a "... private world of fantasies made up of her childhood memories and suppressed desires, a prison of isolation to which Michael has no access and from which he cannot release her. It is the contrast between Hannah's inward sense of alienation and the perfectly normal circumstances of the socialite that the author portrays so perceptibly." -- from the front fault of a panel blurb. Translated from Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange. In Rubbing of the book edges and aged honing of the textblock edges and pages. A small amount of chipping to the top right hand corner of the front dustwrapper panel with rubbing all all panel edges and faint fading to the backstrip and rear panel. This is the first UK edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [5], VI, [1], 2 - 216, [2] pages.. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Israel; 1970s; ISBN: 0701117869. ISBN/EAN: 9780701117863. Inventory No: 0119442.