BELLOW, Saul. Seize the Day. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1957. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Jean Brownston. An about fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the gilt a trifle dulled, negligible bump to spine foot. The binding tight and square, the contents clean, mild offsetting to endpapers but fine without stamps, inscriptions or foxing. The dust jacket unclipped (10s 6d net) and fine, uncommonly so.
The author’s fourth book, a short novel about a ‘worldly failure’, fallen from middle-class respectability, now jobless, penniless, and separated from his wife. Like many of Bellow’s novels and short stories, it depicts an alienated being at odds with the indifferent world which surrounds them. Uncommon in such sharp condition.
BELLOW, Saul. Seize the Day. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1957. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Jean Brownston. An about fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the gilt a trifle dulled, negligible bump to spine foot. The binding tight and square, the contents clean, mild offsetting to endpapers but fine without stamps, inscriptions or foxing. The dust jacket unclipped (10s 6d net) and fine, uncommonly so.
The author’s fourth book, a short novel about a ‘worldly failure’, fallen from middle-class respectability, now jobless, penniless, and separated from his wife. Like many of Bellow’s novels and short stories, it depicts an alienated being at odds with the indifferent world which surrounds them. Uncommon in such sharp condition.
