8vo, original blue cloth with silver lettering and unclipped dust jacket, 251 pp.
; nice copy, slight wear to boards, slight wear to jacket but very presentable, bookplate to first pastedown, light spotting to first 10 pages, binding a little slack.
First edition copy of Elizabeth Taylor's 1957 novel Angel, one of Taylor's best-known works and admired for its sharp irony and vivid character study of a unique literary life.
Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975) is increasingly recognised as one of the best British writers of the twentieth century.
In 2007, Angel was turned into a movie by French director François Ozon.