BOYLE, Kay. Gentlemen, I Address You Privately
BOYLE, Kay. Gentlemen, I Address You Privately. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas. 1933. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine and upper board, in the dust jacket designed by George Annand. A near fine copy, the cloth clean, the gilt publisher’s imprint at foot slightly dulled and rubbed. The binding tight and square, the contents fine throughout. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.50) and complete, just slightly bumped at extremities with very marginal nicks to the spine foot. A handsome example.
Boyle’s third published novel, a queer story about a self-exiled aspiring priest, ‘lonely, independent, appealing’, and a vagabond Irish sailor on the run for desertion and theft. The setting is Normandy and complications arise when the two become romantically attached, but as with several novels by Boyle—and as the title-unravelling epigram hints at—a well-drawn woman comes into her own. Uncommon in this condition.
BOYLE, Kay. Gentlemen, I Address You Privately. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas. 1933. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine and upper board, in the dust jacket designed by George Annand. A near fine copy, the cloth clean, the gilt publisher’s imprint at foot slightly dulled and rubbed. The binding tight and square, the contents fine throughout. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.50) and complete, just slightly bumped at extremities with very marginal nicks to the spine foot. A handsome example.
Boyle’s third published novel, a queer story about a self-exiled aspiring priest, ‘lonely, independent, appealing’, and a vagabond Irish sailor on the run for desertion and theft. The setting is Normandy and complications arise when the two become romantically attached, but as with several novels by Boyle—and as the title-unravelling epigram hints at—a well-drawn woman comes into her own. Uncommon in this condition.
BOYLE, Kay. Gentlemen, I Address You Privately. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas. 1933. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine and upper board, in the dust jacket designed by George Annand. A near fine copy, the cloth clean, the gilt publisher’s imprint at foot slightly dulled and rubbed. The binding tight and square, the contents fine throughout. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.50) and complete, just slightly bumped at extremities with very marginal nicks to the spine foot. A handsome example.
Boyle’s third published novel, a queer story about a self-exiled aspiring priest, ‘lonely, independent, appealing’, and a vagabond Irish sailor on the run for desertion and theft. The setting is Normandy and complications arise when the two become romantically attached, but as with several novels by Boyle—and as the title-unravelling epigram hints at—a well-drawn woman comes into her own. Uncommon in this condition.