BLAKE, George. Paper Money
BLAKE, George. Paper Money. London: Constable. 1928. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s beige cloth lettered and ruled in red to the spine and front board, in the just sumptuous dust jacket signed EJIA, for Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone. A terrific copy overall, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and gently rolled. The contents clean and fine. The dust jacket unclipped (7/6 net) with several tiny chips, a couple of small closed tears and very light grubbiness, but a most handsome copy.
The Scottish author’s fourth novel, continuing that steady trend of social realism of which he would be remembered. Blake was born in Greenock and quickly began his career in journalism, moving away from the general poverty his working-class background had engulfed him in. His first few novels are filled with that gritty realism one would expect from a left-leaning journalist, and what strikes as a genuine fascination with and deep appreciation of all things industrial seeps into the nuts and bolts of this work, set against the backdrop of, as the title alludes, a world stinking of paper. The dust jacket by Ardizzone is very early—hence the EJIA initials which he soon dropped; it might well be his first commission, and with a publisher that was more than keeping pace with the American publishers and designers of the time.
BLAKE, George. Paper Money. London: Constable. 1928. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s beige cloth lettered and ruled in red to the spine and front board, in the just sumptuous dust jacket signed EJIA, for Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone. A terrific copy overall, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and gently rolled. The contents clean and fine. The dust jacket unclipped (7/6 net) with several tiny chips, a couple of small closed tears and very light grubbiness, but a most handsome copy.
The Scottish author’s fourth novel, continuing that steady trend of social realism of which he would be remembered. Blake was born in Greenock and quickly began his career in journalism, moving away from the general poverty his working-class background had engulfed him in. His first few novels are filled with that gritty realism one would expect from a left-leaning journalist, and what strikes as a genuine fascination with and deep appreciation of all things industrial seeps into the nuts and bolts of this work, set against the backdrop of, as the title alludes, a world stinking of paper. The dust jacket by Ardizzone is very early—hence the EJIA initials which he soon dropped; it might well be his first commission, and with a publisher that was more than keeping pace with the American publishers and designers of the time.
BLAKE, George. Paper Money. London: Constable. 1928. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s beige cloth lettered and ruled in red to the spine and front board, in the just sumptuous dust jacket signed EJIA, for Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone. A terrific copy overall, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and gently rolled. The contents clean and fine. The dust jacket unclipped (7/6 net) with several tiny chips, a couple of small closed tears and very light grubbiness, but a most handsome copy.
The Scottish author’s fourth novel, continuing that steady trend of social realism of which he would be remembered. Blake was born in Greenock and quickly began his career in journalism, moving away from the general poverty his working-class background had engulfed him in. His first few novels are filled with that gritty realism one would expect from a left-leaning journalist, and what strikes as a genuine fascination with and deep appreciation of all things industrial seeps into the nuts and bolts of this work, set against the backdrop of, as the title alludes, a world stinking of paper. The dust jacket by Ardizzone is very early—hence the EJIA initials which he soon dropped; it might well be his first commission, and with a publisher that was more than keeping pace with the American publishers and designers of the time.