With scarce promotional bookmark.

ALDISS, Brian ~ Forgotten Life. Warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication.

FIRST UK PRINTING. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London: 1988.

8vo., green publisher's boards, lettered in gilt to spine; together in the pictorial dustwrapper (unclipped, £11.95 net) featuring an illustration by Lucian Freud; THE BOOK bumped to corner of rear board; spine ends ever-so-slightly pushed; the pages perhaps marginally toned, otherwise near-fine, THE WRAPPER a touch creased to rear flap (corresponding with the bump beneath); otherwise fine. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. First UK edition. This copy warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication to the front free endpaper: "To my friend and supporter Marshall Tymn - You'll find - if you ever find time to read this - that my years of writing SF have enabled me to pack an ordinary novel with plenty of ideas. "I dream, therefore I become..." Warmest regards Brian Aldiss '88". The line refers directly to the quotation printed to the title page, with the recipient being the Science Fiction writer and biographer Marshall B. Tymn. This copy also comes complete with promotional Gollancz bookmark, featuring reviews from Anthony Burgess and Iris Murdoch. 'Forgotten Life' follows the course of three lives over a period of some fifty years: Clement Winter, an oxford don; Shelia, his wife, a fantasy writer; and Joseph, Clement's brother, who has recently died, leaving behind an assortment of letters and papers which the couple must assimilate. The result leads to Clement and Shelia's reassessment of their own lives - and the meaning of it all. A fine copy of the second work in Aldiss's 'Squire Quartet' series.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Near Fine
JACKET: Fine