Highsmith, Patricia. This Sweet Sickness. London: Heinemann, 1961. 8vo., original full navy cloth with silver stamping to spine. 240 pp.

First UK edition, first printing with "First Published in Great Brittan 1961" stated on the copyright page. Handsome copy of Highsmith's sixth effort as a novelist, and the fifth under her own name. Cut through with her usual existential themes, casting doubt on humanity's ability to know anything and find peace in this world. Herein readers meet David Kelsey, a young chemist who keeps two flats, one for his real life and the other for the life he imagines leading with his secret love Annabelle, who doesn't know of his feelings - and quite possibly his existence.

Near fine in like dust jacket, just the slightest bowing to the bows with faint touches of edge wear to the dust jacket.

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