Waterland

New York: Poseidon Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Swift on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($15.95). Quarter grey cloth with blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Swift's Booker Prize-nominated novel about an aging history teacher who "abandons his formal lessons to tell his students stories of his native Fenland, an ambiguous, amphibious domain where past and present intermingle, where the drama of loss and reclamation is written in the landscape." Adapted into the film starring Jeremy Irons.