JORDAN, Neil. The Past.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1980.
 
8vo.; in grey cloth; with dust-jacket; in fine condition.
 
First edition, inscribed by Jordan: “To Edna and Micheal [Longley], / With Best Wishes, on the day after my birthday. / Neil 26/2/1981.”
 
Jordan is a writer and filmmaker from Sligo, Ireland. His first book, the 1976 collection of stories Night in Tunisia, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. The Past was his first novel.