The Blackwater Lightship

First edition, second impression. 274pp, [6]pp blank. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine; blue endpapers. 8vo. Top front edge sun-faded, rubbed spine ends. Text block edge tanning and starting to fox. Previous owner's name on title page. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped. Set in 1990s Ireland, Toibin's novel tells of the Devereux family, there strifes and relationship struggles as they are brought together by impending death in an old tumble-down house on the coast.