BRAINE, John. Room at the Top. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1957. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the sumptuous dust jacket designed by John Minton. A very good copy. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and very gently rolled. Light spots to the textblock closed edges, faint offsetting to endpapers, with ink ownership inscription of Scottish author, Bruce Marshall to front endpaper. Else fine. The dust jacket unclipped (15s net), nicked around spine head with mild abrasions to top edges and faint spots to flaps, but a brighter and sharper copy than one usually encounters, refreshingly so.
Braine’s first and most successful novel which typifies the essence of the Angry Young Men group of which he was a major figure. Adapted to the screen in 1959. The jacket by John Minton is one of his most recognisable, testament to both the brilliance of the design and the novel’s popularity.
BRAINE, John. Room at the Top. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1957. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the sumptuous dust jacket designed by John Minton. A very good copy. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and very gently rolled. Light spots to the textblock closed edges, faint offsetting to endpapers, with ink ownership inscription of Scottish author, Bruce Marshall to front endpaper. Else fine. The dust jacket unclipped (15s net), nicked around spine head with mild abrasions to top edges and faint spots to flaps, but a brighter and sharper copy than one usually encounters, refreshingly so.
Braine’s first and most successful novel which typifies the essence of the Angry Young Men group of which he was a major figure. Adapted to the screen in 1959. The jacket by John Minton is one of his most recognisable, testament to both the brilliance of the design and the novel’s popularity.
