FOUL MATTER. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1983. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "Aiken at her most serious, with neither fluff nor suspense—in a gloomy, drifty, faintly gothic modern-novel (adultery, death, soul-searching) that occasionally sends up flares of charm and poignancy ... Aiken fans won't find the usual pleasures here, they may be intermittently engaged by this uneven, ambitious blend of the morbid and the whimsical" (Kirkus Reviews). Small triangular piece clipped from the upper fore-edge corner of the front free endpaper, else a fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket priced $14.95 on the front flap with touch of wear at spine ends. (#177319).
Price: $35.00
First edition so stated on copyright page.