Nicholas Mosley – Accident – First Edition 1965
£95.00
First edition, first printing of Accident by Nicholas Mosley, published by Hodder and Stoughton, London in 1965. A near fine copy with humorous annotation in red pen to the copyright page, relating to an associated sheet of ‘Don’t Forget’ note paper outlining several plot characters and their real life counterparts, boards bound in publisher’s original black cloth with gilt titling to the spine, bumping to foot of the spine, slight toning and spotting to top edge of text block. In a very good unclipped wrapper, with chipping to the spine tips and knuckles of front and rear flap folds, fading to the spine, closed tears to the upper edge of front panel and front flap fold.
Accident by Nicholas Mosley is an elegant, introspective novel set among the elite of Oxford University. It starts with a fatal car crash involving two students, one of whom is rescued—but crucial truths are withheld. The story unfurls in reverse, exploring moral ambiguities in academia, marriage, and illicit desire. Through the eyes of a philosophy don, Mosley probes existential uncertainty, infidelity and the tension between outward appearance and inner reality. The prose is spare, poetic and compelling.
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First edition, first printing of Accident by Nicholas Mosley, published by Hodder and Stoughton, London in 1965. A near fine copy with humorous annotation in red pen to the copyright page, relating to an associated sheet of ‘Don’t Forget’ note paper outlining several plot characters and their real life counterparts, boards bound in publisher’s original black cloth with gilt titling to the spine, bumping to foot of the spine, slight toning and spotting to top edge of text block. In a very good unclipped wrapper, with chipping to the spine tips and knuckles of front and rear flap folds, fading to the spine, closed tears to the upper edge of front panel and front flap fold.
Accident by Nicholas Mosley is an elegant, introspective novel set among the elite of Oxford University. It starts with a fatal car crash involving two students, one of whom is rescued—but crucial truths are withheld. The story unfurls in reverse, exploring moral ambiguities in academia, marriage, and illicit desire. Through the eyes of a philosophy don, Mosley probes existential uncertainty, infidelity and the tension between outward appearance and inner reality. The prose is spare, poetic and compelling.
