LEON, Donna ~ Acqua Alta. Signed by the author.

FIRST UK PRINTING. Macmillan, London: 1996.

8vo., black publisher's boards, lettered in gilt to spine with publisher's device to foot; in the unclipped photographic dustwrapper (£15.99 to front flap); THE BOOK very near-fine, lightly rubbed at spine tips with one small brown spot to the upper edge of text block; THE WRAPPER for all intents and purposes fine. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. FIRST UK EDITION, neatly signed 'with best wishes' to the title page. Following on from a series of novels centering around the protagonist Guido Brunetti - 'Death at La Fenice' (1992); 'Death in a Strange Country' (1993); 'The Anonymous Venetian' (1994) and 'A Venetian Reckoning' (1995) - 'Acqua Alta' was published in the U.S. under the title 'Death in High Water', and once again follows detective Guido Brunetti, who this time investigates the savage beating of an old friend at her palazzo home during a period of intense rainfall and flooding in the capital region of Veneto. A lovely copy of Leon's fifth Venetian crime novel.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Near Fine
JACKET: Fine