BRAMSON, Karen. Men. London: Chapman & Hall. 1930. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in black to the spine in the dust jacket designed by ‘C’. A very good copy overall, the cloth just slightly marked and rubbed around headband. The binding tight and square, the textblock with spots to edges, the contents fine. The dust jacket with no printed price, complete, very gently rubbed along the spine tips, but a very pleasing example.
A scarce critique of western masculinity in novel form, which follows the son of a wealthy Danish plantation owner. Dissatisfied with his life, the son vows to eschew his father’s worldly convictions and sets off on a journey of self-discovery across much of Europe, and later finds the only solitude in the depth of nature in the West Indies. Bramson, like her protagonist here, was born into a wealthy Danish family and also eschewed her father’s ambitions, abounding her native Denmark for France on the outbreak of war—frustrated with her country’s neutrality. She was later awarded the Légion d'honneur for her propagandist writings on prisoner of war treatment. This particular novel is an expansion on her 1929 play. She wrote in Danish and in French, and though much of her work was supposedly translated into English, we can locate very few early copies.
BRAMSON, Karen. Men. London: Chapman & Hall. 1930. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in black to the spine in the dust jacket designed by ‘C’. A very good copy overall, the cloth just slightly marked and rubbed around headband. The binding tight and square, the textblock with spots to edges, the contents fine. The dust jacket with no printed price, complete, very gently rubbed along the spine tips, but a very pleasing example.
A scarce critique of western masculinity in novel form, which follows the son of a wealthy Danish plantation owner. Dissatisfied with his life, the son vows to eschew his father’s worldly convictions and sets off on a journey of self-discovery across much of Europe, and later finds the only solitude in the depth of nature in the West Indies. Bramson, like her protagonist here, was born into a wealthy Danish family and also eschewed her father’s ambitions, abounding her native Denmark for France on the outbreak of war—frustrated with her country’s neutrality. She was later awarded the Légion d'honneur for her propagandist writings on prisoner of war treatment. This particular novel is an expansion on her 1929 play. She wrote in Danish and in French, and though much of her work was supposedly translated into English, we can locate very few early copies.
