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hardcover. Condición: Very Good in Dustjacket. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1991. Pantheon Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0679404333. 174 pages. hardcover. keywords: Europe England Literature World Literature. DESCRIPTION - A literary mystery set in postwar Britain that was left unfinished by Connolly at his death in 1974. It was completed by Oxford scholar and poet Peter Levi, to whom Connolly divulged the denouement. SHADE THOSE LAURELS features an aristocratic cast of suspects that has gathered at the country estate of famed author Sir Mortimer Gussage to celebrate his birthday and knighthood. When Sir Mortimer meets an untimely death later that evening, it is his young admirer and protege, Stephen Kemble, who unravels the mystery. A delightful spoof of the country house thriller. inventory #15489.…

8vo, viii + 174pp. Original boards in pictorial dustwrapper, very slightly edgeworn. Cyril Connolly's unfinished novel, completed by Peter Levi. Half-title page bears the signature of Peter Levi. A near-fine copy. First US edition. Signed copy.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Purple wrappers. Some toning and creasing thus very good.