2001
[10], 242; [10], 242pp.
Little, Brown and Company, London.

A collector’s set of Bainbridge’s ‘According to Queeney’ being a signed and limited proof and signed first edition of the work. 

Proof copy signed by the author to the title page. Limited edition of thirty copies of which this is number twenty-two. A larger limitation of the proof was also printed, with this being far scarcer. The first edition is also flat signed by the author to the title page. 

First edition and first proof, first impression, with no further reprints stated. 

First edition in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Proof in original publisher’s wraps. 

Longlisted for the Booker Prize ‘According to Queeney’ follows Samuel Johnson in his last years, notably relating to his relationship with Hester Thrale’s daughter. 

In the original cloth binding in the original unclipped dust wrapper and in the original publisher’s paper wraps. Externally in lovely condition. Proof is in lovely condition with slight shelf wear to the extremities. Dust wrapper is in lovely condition. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with age toning to first edition and the odd spot to the fore edge, heavier to the top edge.

Grading: NEAR FINE in a FINE dust wrapper.