A Signed First Edition, [First Printing] of 'White Merc with Fins' by James Hawes in Fine condition in a Fine condition pictorial dust jacket published by Jonathan Cape Limited in 1996

A Signed First Edition, [First Printing] of 'White Merc with Fins' by James Hawes in Fine condition in a Fine condition pictorial dust jacket published by Jonathan Cape Limited in 1996

First Edition, [First Printing]—Edition identified by: 1) Publishers imprint information and 2) publisher's imprint line 13579108642

Fine/Fine: A very tidy, tightly bound book with clean boards and pages which is SIGNED and INSCRIBED by James Hawes on the title page, in a fine dust jacket. All notable faults: Paper lightly tanned.

Hawes, James

Hardcover, Octavo (20-25 cm high). 281 printed pages in red cloth with black lettering, in pictorial dust jacket. ISBN 022404320X [9780224043205]

Jonathan Cape Limited, London, 1996: Jonathan Cape Limited—(Founded in 1919) British publisher founded in 1919 by Herbert Jonathan Cape (1879-1960), the son of a builder who started as an apprentice in the book trade. The company was initially named Jonathan Page and Company (Page was his mother's maiden name) and this changed to Jonathan Cape in 1921. Its best known books and authors are probably: T. E. Lawrence, Arthur Ransome, the later Roald Dahl books, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, Fitzroy Maclean's Eastern Approaches, the James Bond series by Ian Fleming and more recently Anita Brookner, Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie. It is currently an imprint of Random House.

Summary: The author's first novel.