A Weekend with Claud

London: New Authors Limited (Hutchinson of London), 1967.

First Edition, first printing, of Bainbridge's first novel. Publisher's black cloth, with the excellent and unclipped dust-jacket, spine very slightly tanned and ends a touch rubbed. Without inscriptions or any other internal markings. A near fine copy. A darkly comic novel about a weekend gathering which descends into hostility. The story focuses on four mismatched friends who spend the weekend together in a rather shabby old house in the country belonging to one of them. Things soon start to unravels as old tensions and secrets resurface, leading to a series of absurd and uncomfortable scenes. The novel was reissued in a revised for in 1981 under the title 'A Weekend with Claude.'