DURAS, Marguerite; Anne BORCHARDT (translator). Ten-Thirty on a Summer Night. London: John Calder. 1962.
8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in silver to spine, illustrated dust-jacket; pp. [2], 108,[2, (blank)]; neatly price-clipped, wear to crown and base of jacket spine, creasing to top edge of jacket, off-setting from jacket to endpapers, slight spotting to top-edge of textblock; near fine.
First UK edition, first impression.
Set against the backdrop of a sultry family holiday, the novel traces a tense web of desire and jealousy bringing together a married woman, her husband, and a family friend, shadowed by the presence of a murderer on the run. This was the third novel of Duras’s to be published in England.
SKU: 2124342