A Bad Business (Lost Roads)

A Good copy of a writer's "first published collection."Cover painting by the author is an abstract which has a mask, covered by ferns, set on a column, framed by a mostly gold frame. Wear to cover. No wrinkles to spine. Wear to back cover with faint scratching. Inside front cover is a spot measuring a quarter inch along the side edging which continues until page 29. Part of a label on front flyleaf. Gift inscription in blue ballpoint on title page. Signed by author in black fine felt tip on title page:"For Aunt Janet/Alison Bundy" Instead of a comma between lines, the author has drawn a line. Lost Roads series no. 27. 53 pages. Contents:"the traveller; a windy day; the telling; the nervous person; the day of the pig; a small matter of planning; the baby and the poison beetle; the chair; the inexplicable incident of the crown; love and the metal chest; the man, the storm; zombie fete: an outline; the wheelbarrow story; tree signs; the apostle of love; traci