The Bystander (Signed)
London: Macdonald, 1957. 1st ed., octavo, original cloth boards, dustjacket, pp. 238. Previous owner's inscription first free endpaper, small date halftitle page. Signed by Randoph Stow directly to title page. Near-fine condition in like dustjacket.
Novel set on a remote farm in Western Australia, which begins with the arrival of Diana Ravirs a Latvian refugee. (The book is dedicated to Dieter Grant-Frost, Stow's fellow college alumnus, who arrived as a child as a refugee from Latvia.) The first edition of Stow's second novel. Uncommon, and very scarce signed. Item #104503
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