The Jester of God

First edition. 216pp. Black cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Slightly sun-faded spine, lightly rubbed spine ends. Text block edges starting to tan and fox. Free endpapers just starting to fox and tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Novel set in a remote village in the South of Italy, where gossip has it that not so long ago, God’s jester stole away a convent girl who chanced to spend a night in the village – a story which rouses the curiosity of an Englishman who resolves to disentangle the threads of legend from the fact.