ALDINGTON, Richard. Roads to Glory. London: Chatto & Windus. 1930. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s brown cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, with brown topstain and other edges untrimmed. In the evocative Paul Nash dust jacket. A very good copy overall, the cloth clean and bright with small mark to front board, extremities just a trifle rubbed. The binding tight and perhaps just very slightly rolled, the contents fine but for a few mild spots to endpapers and prelims. The dust jacket price-clipped, tiny nicks to the spine corners and tips, some light rubbing here and along the joints, but a very presentable copy overall.
One of Aldington’s most important works which runs parallel to his magnum opus, Death of a Hero (1929). Roads to Glory collects thirteen embittered stories described by the publisher as ‘symbolic of the feeling of a generation’, which hints at the great void of fiction in response to war between 1918 and 1928. Yet unlike its novel counterpart, war here is ‘the background of individual destinies caught in the great whirlpool of collective human destiny’. The iconic dust jacket by Paul Nash is one of only a handful of designs in the medium and is a cataloguer’s firm favourite.
ALDINGTON, Richard. Roads to Glory. London: Chatto & Windus. 1930. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s brown cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, with brown topstain and other edges untrimmed. In the evocative Paul Nash dust jacket. A very good copy overall, the cloth clean and bright with small mark to front board, extremities just a trifle rubbed. The binding tight and perhaps just very slightly rolled, the contents fine but for a few mild spots to endpapers and prelims. The dust jacket price-clipped, tiny nicks to the spine corners and tips, some light rubbing here and along the joints, but a very presentable copy overall.
One of Aldington’s most important works which runs parallel to his magnum opus, Death of a Hero (1929). Roads to Glory collects thirteen embittered stories described by the publisher as ‘symbolic of the feeling of a generation’, which hints at the great void of fiction in response to war between 1918 and 1928. Yet unlike its novel counterpart, war here is ‘the background of individual destinies caught in the great whirlpool of collective human destiny’. The iconic dust jacket by Paul Nash is one of only a handful of designs in the medium and is a cataloguer’s firm favourite.
