ARMSTRONG, Martin. St. Christopher's Day. London: Gollancz. 1928. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer. A very good or better copy. The cloth clean, just a touch faded and pushed at the spine tips, the binding tight and square. The contents clean and fine but for minor offsetting to endpapers. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to the spine panel which is somewhat toned and grubby, light abrasion to the front flap joint, mild rubbing at the corners and tips with one small closed tear to foot of spine.
One of the author’s better-known works, a novel which cemented him as a leading novelist of his time. The superb dust jacket designed by Edward McKnight-Kauffer represents one of eighteen produced in the first year of publishers Gollancz. Victor Gollancz, after a lengthy apprenticeship with Ernest Benn, decided to go it alone and set up shop in Henrietta Street in Covent Garden in December 1927. For his first list in 1928, he turned to one of the most exciting designers in operation, Kauffer. When the typographer, Stanley Morison joined Gollancz shortly afterwards, he persuaded Gollancz to dismiss such pictorial jackets and to instead adopt the admittedly now-iconic plain yellow jacket—he saw no reason why ‘a man approaching a new book, with any curiosity about the contents, should be fobbed off with a picture on the jacket’, he said. [Artmonsky & Webb].
ARMSTRONG, Martin. St. Christopher's Day. London: Gollancz. 1928. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer. A very good or better copy. The cloth clean, just a touch faded and pushed at the spine tips, the binding tight and square. The contents clean and fine but for minor offsetting to endpapers. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to the spine panel which is somewhat toned and grubby, light abrasion to the front flap joint, mild rubbing at the corners and tips with one small closed tear to foot of spine.
One of the author’s better-known works, a novel which cemented him as a leading novelist of his time. The superb dust jacket designed by Edward McKnight-Kauffer represents one of eighteen produced in the first year of publishers Gollancz. Victor Gollancz, after a lengthy apprenticeship with Ernest Benn, decided to go it alone and set up shop in Henrietta Street in Covent Garden in December 1927. For his first list in 1928, he turned to one of the most exciting designers in operation, Kauffer. When the typographer, Stanley Morison joined Gollancz shortly afterwards, he persuaded Gollancz to dismiss such pictorial jackets and to instead adopt the admittedly now-iconic plain yellow jacket—he saw no reason why ‘a man approaching a new book, with any curiosity about the contents, should be fobbed off with a picture on the jacket’, he said. [Artmonsky & Webb].
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