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The Bird of Night.

HILL, Susan (born 1942).

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1972. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 186. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Craig Dodd with printed price of £1.95 net. Neat ownership to flyleaf, a little dustiness to top edge else a fine copy. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the 1972 winner of the Whitbread Award. Item #53955

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