MCEWAN, Ian. Saturday London: Jonathan Cape, 2005
8vo., original black publisher's boards, lettered in gilt to spine with publisher's device to foot; navy-blue endpapers; in the original unclipped dust jacket (£17.99) with photographs by Chris Frazer Smith, and a photograph of the author to the lower panel by Eamonn McCabe; pp. [x], 3-279, [i]; fine.
First edition, signed by the author to the title page. Told over the course of a single day, Saturday explores themes of terrorism, political tension, and protest in what the Financial Times called "A book of great maturity, beautifully alive to the fragility of happiness and all forms of violence."
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