Author: BLOOMFIELD, ANTHONY
Title: The Tempter
Description: London, The Hogarth Press. 1961, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on red boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is some foxing to closed edges and endpapers else clean and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. Dustjacket, by Lynton Lamb, has one small closed tear to back and a little wear to top. A novel of a bookshop, where behind the red curtains, the activities are sinister and illegal, but those who are drawn within achieve release and recapture their own innocence. Samson, the vain bookseller, leads them into conduct which is perilous in both spiritual and social terms, but his nature is recognised ultimately to contain a strong element of the redeemer. The author's third novel which may be read as a moral fable. A1C. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Fiction, Bookshop


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