SINCLAIR, Iain. White Chappell Scarlet Tracings. Uppingham: Goldmark. 1987.
Tall 8vo. Original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine; Illustrated green and white dust jacket with cover illustration from John Bellany's painting, Time and The Raven; frontispiece by Rigby Graham and author's signature to title page; pp. [xii], 210, [6]; some markings to dust jacket cover; otherwise internally fine and very good.
Signed first novel by the writer and filmmaker
A novel about London – its past, its people, its underbelly and its madness.
"Sinclair combines a spiritual inquest into the Whitechapel Ripper murders and the dark side of the late Victorian imagination with a posse of seedy book dealers hot on the trail of obscure rarities of that period. These ruined and ruthless dandies appear and disappear through a phantasmagoria interspersed with occult conjurings and reflections on the nature of fiction and history." (The Guardian)
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