The Devil's Larder

First US edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 165, [3 (blank)]. Black backstrip over red paper-covered boards, lettered and ruled in gilt to spine; decorative endpapers. Jacket design by Susan Mitchell.

Ex-Libris Jim Crace. Signed by the author and from the author's own library.

Crace's seventh book. A 2001 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. A cumulative novel in sixty-four short fictions, exploring human foibles through the prism of our relationship with food. By the winner of the 2000 National Book Critics' Circle Award for Fiction for Being Dead. "Delicious... the sheer quantity of inventiveness is astounding." –Mail on Sunday