BEATON, George [Gerald Brenan]. Jack Robinson (signed)
BEATON, George [pseud. of Gerald Brenan]. Jack Robinson: A Picaresque Novel. London: Chatto & Windus. 1933. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s lime green cloth lettered in red to spine, in the striking dust jacket which, though uncredited, is almost certainly designed by Trekkie Ritchie. A family copy inscribed by the author to ‘Cousin Emily’ from ‘Gerabel’ with a wonderful original photograph of the author and his wife, the poet Elizabeth Gamel Woolsey. A very good book, cloth clean, gently bumped at corners, binding tight and gently rolled. Contents clean and fine. Dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net) with large portion lost to spine foot, smaller loss to front and rear panel corners, milder bumps and chips, tape repairs to verso. Nevertheless scarce.
The author’s first novel, one of two published under the Beaton pseudonym and this probably not dissimilar from Brenan’s own adolescent experience; the protagonist here unravels in dosshouses and on the street, associates with addicts, pickpockets, prostitutes &c from the London underworld. Brenan himself, before his utter devotion to everything Spain, spent time attempting to walk to China on a meagre sum and knew, albeit temporarily, the down-and-out-life. The photograph, sitting within four small slits to front endpaper, depicts Brenan and his wife, Gamel Woolsey, whom he married after his disastrous affair with Dora Carrington—the wife of Brenan’s good friend, Ralph Partridge, who had initially introduced Brenan into the Bloomsbury fold. Woolsey was a curious figure; openly obsessed with Llewelyn Powys, she stayed with Brenan for over forty years until her death, and T. S. Eliot’s scathing rejection of her poetry might have something to do with her lifelong passive mood.
BEATON, George [pseud. of Gerald Brenan]. Jack Robinson: A Picaresque Novel. London: Chatto & Windus. 1933. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s lime green cloth lettered in red to spine, in the striking dust jacket which, though uncredited, is almost certainly designed by Trekkie Ritchie. A family copy inscribed by the author to ‘Cousin Emily’ from ‘Gerabel’ with a wonderful original photograph of the author and his wife, the poet Elizabeth Gamel Woolsey. A very good book, cloth clean, gently bumped at corners, binding tight and gently rolled. Contents clean and fine. Dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net) with large portion lost to spine foot, smaller loss to front and rear panel corners, milder bumps and chips, tape repairs to verso. Nevertheless scarce.
The author’s first novel, one of two published under the Beaton pseudonym and this probably not dissimilar from Brenan’s own adolescent experience; the protagonist here unravels in dosshouses and on the street, associates with addicts, pickpockets, prostitutes &c from the London underworld. Brenan himself, before his utter devotion to everything Spain, spent time attempting to walk to China on a meagre sum and knew, albeit temporarily, the down-and-out-life. The photograph, sitting within four small slits to front endpaper, depicts Brenan and his wife, Gamel Woolsey, whom he married after his disastrous affair with Dora Carrington—the wife of Brenan’s good friend, Ralph Partridge, who had initially introduced Brenan into the Bloomsbury fold. Woolsey was a curious figure; openly obsessed with Llewelyn Powys, she stayed with Brenan for over forty years until her death, and T. S. Eliot’s scathing rejection of her poetry might have something to do with her lifelong passive mood.
BEATON, George [pseud. of Gerald Brenan]. Jack Robinson: A Picaresque Novel. London: Chatto & Windus. 1933. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s lime green cloth lettered in red to spine, in the striking dust jacket which, though uncredited, is almost certainly designed by Trekkie Ritchie. A family copy inscribed by the author to ‘Cousin Emily’ from ‘Gerabel’ with a wonderful original photograph of the author and his wife, the poet Elizabeth Gamel Woolsey. A very good book, cloth clean, gently bumped at corners, binding tight and gently rolled. Contents clean and fine. Dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net) with large portion lost to spine foot, smaller loss to front and rear panel corners, milder bumps and chips, tape repairs to verso. Nevertheless scarce.
The author’s first novel, one of two published under the Beaton pseudonym and this probably not dissimilar from Brenan’s own adolescent experience; the protagonist here unravels in dosshouses and on the street, associates with addicts, pickpockets, prostitutes &c from the London underworld. Brenan himself, before his utter devotion to everything Spain, spent time attempting to walk to China on a meagre sum and knew, albeit temporarily, the down-and-out-life. The photograph, sitting within four small slits to front endpaper, depicts Brenan and his wife, Gamel Woolsey, whom he married after his disastrous affair with Dora Carrington—the wife of Brenan’s good friend, Ralph Partridge, who had initially introduced Brenan into the Bloomsbury fold. Woolsey was a curious figure; openly obsessed with Llewelyn Powys, she stayed with Brenan for over forty years until her death, and T. S. Eliot’s scathing rejection of her poetry might have something to do with her lifelong passive mood.