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Sharpe, Tom.
Porterhouse Blue.
Publisher: Secker & Warburg, London;
Date of Publication: 1974
Stock Code: 9119
First edition Octavo, pp., [4], 219, [1]. Publishers’ scarlet cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Spine tips a little creased; tidy ownership inscription to front free endpaper otherwise clean and crisp. Jacket rubbed at spine tips and lightly creased top edge; slightly toned to front flaps. Not spine faded as is often the case. A near fine copy in very good dust-jacket. The author’s third novel is a “Rabelaisian portrait of a college and the ancient traditions of the University” based loosely upon Sharpe’s own experiences at Pembroke College, Cambridge. £85.00