Ethel & Ernest. A True Story adriatic with just the bottom coil

with just the bottom coil a touch wonky

A fine copy in the unclipped dust-jacket

and then became inactive

First British Edition following publication in USA the year before

national vanity

Ethel & Ernest. A True Story adriatic with just the bottom coilLondon: Jonathan Cape, 1998. First Edition, first printing (with correct number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, pale yellow endpapers. With the illustrated dust jacket, priced at 14. 99, in absolutely first rate condition, no tears or marks and no toning or other faults. Without inscriptions, etc. A fine copy. Briggs' award winning story of his parents, presented in his distinctive picture board style.