The Danger Tree (Signed copy)

1980, signed by Olivia Manning, the first book in her Levant Trilogy

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Printing Details

First edition thus (Foyle's Book Club, by arrangement with Weidenfeld & Nicolson). Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14cm, 195pp.

Signed and dedicated by Oliva Manning to the ffep.

The first volume of The Levant Trilogy, originally published in 1977, and continuing her Fortunes of War series after the Balkan Trilogy. Having fled a Europe overrun by Hitler, Guy and Harriet Pringle live a precarious existence in Cairo. They meet the young officer Simon Boulderstone, and all three must grapple with disillusionment and isolation, heightened by the uncertainties of war.

Condition

The book is in very good condition, with a little light dusting to the pages' top edge, minor sunning to the boards' edges, and some light blotchiness to the prelims. The dustwrapper is also very good, with light rubbing to the edges and a little light spotting to the wrapper's flaps.