JOHNSON, B.S. Trawl. London: Martin Secker & Warburg Limited. 1966.
8vo. Black cloth backed boards with gilt lettering; black and orange illustrated dust jacket designed by John Holden; pp. [7], 8-183, [1]; very minimal scuffing to head of spine; otherwise fine.
A first edition of B.S. Johnson's third novel.
“I… always with I… one starts from… one and I share the same character… are one” begins this scarce edition of B.S. Johnson's beautiful third novel. Relayed in the first person, as if an internal monologue, the story revolves around the events of a three week voyage on a deep sea fishing trawler, yet is also a narrative which simultaneously attempts to reach the very heart of the human condition. Rather than a seasoned man of the ocean, the narrator suffers severely from debilitating sea-sickness and thus takes meandering journeys into past reflection towards his own version of resolution.
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