The South [Signed bookplate]

New York: Viking, 1991. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Viking, 1991. First American Edition. Octavo (21 cm); 238pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with author photo on back flap and price intact ($18.95). Boards quarter bound in light blue paper and dark blue cloth with gilt stamping. Fore edge deckled. Gray endsheets. Jacket generally creased and rubbed with minor scuffs to panels and toning to margins; verso toned lightly. Board corners and spine ends bumped with light soiling and fading to margins; shelfwear to edges. Erased pencil markings to flyleaf but pages otherwise clean. A Very Good or better copy in like dust jacket.

Bookplate signed by Colm Tóibín loosely laid in. The first of the Irish journalist's novels, The South follows a Protestant Katherine Proctor as she leaves her family in Ireland for Barcelona to find herself and her art.