Brazzaville Beach [Advance Uncorrected Proof]

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1991. First Edition. Uncorrected Bound Galleys, softcover. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper wrappers; 316pp. Cover design by Barbara Levine and Linda Kosarin, and cover art by Thomas Woodriff. Light shelf-wear, with creases to wrapper edges, and soil to edges of textblock; Very Good. Boyd's novel follows a researcher as she studies chimpanzees in Africa, and it earned the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1990) and the McVitie's Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year. [85242].