The Big Waves.

Ross-MacDonald (Malcolm)

The Big Waves.

Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. 253, crown 8vo, original mid-blue boards, backstrip lettered in silver, device to upper board in silver and black, a few notes pencilled to rear endpapers (corresponding to marginal marking to the text), dustjacket by Tom Adams with the author's self-portrait to rear panel, a few tiny nicks, very good

Publication Details: Jonathan Cape, 1962

Notes: Signed by the author on the title-page. Beneath his signature is a printed slip in Swedish, stating that 'the author has signed each copy of his novel that is for sale in Umeå (where the book was written), as a token of the gratitude he feels towards the Umeå people for the pleasant years he spent among them'.The author's first book, the tale of a female art student who suffers a nervous breakdown; written whilst Ross-MacDonald was teaching English in the north of Sweden, it was heavily based, he recalled, on conversations with 'Jon Silkin and David Mercer and their girlfriends' whilst the ...moreSigned by the author on the title-page. Beneath his signature is a printed slip in Swedish, stating that 'the author has signed each copy of his novel that is for sale in Umeå (where the book was written), as a token of the gratitude he feels towards the Umeå people for the pleasant years he spent among them'.The author's first book, the tale of a female art student who suffers a nervous breakdown; written whilst Ross-MacDonald was teaching English in the north of Sweden, it was heavily based, he recalled, on conversations with 'Jon Silkin and David Mercer and their girlfriends' whilst the three lived together in Hampstead. HIDE