Description
Signed by Susan Sontag, the first edition, first printing of The Volcano Lover: A Romance by Susan Sontag.
Octavo, [10], 419pp. Quarter black cloth over red paper boards, title in gilt on spine. The first printing, with “First printing, 1992” on copyright page. In the publisher’s fine dust jacket, $22.00 retail price on front flap. With Kroch’s & Brentano’s of Chicago First Edition Circle belly-band around dust jacket.
Signed by Susan Sontag on the front free endpaper.
A historical novel set principally in Naples, centered on Sir William Hamilton, Emma Hamilton, Lord Nelson, and the eruption of Vesuvius. This was Sontag’s first novel in twenty-five years, following Death Kit in 1967.
