CHAPELA, E. Salazar. Naked in Piccadilly. Trans. from the Spanish by Patricia Crampton. London: Abelard-Schuman. 1961. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s bright yellow cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Brian Paine. A very good or better copy, the cloth with one minor mark to the front board, but bright and sharp. The binding tight and square, with some mild spots to the fore-edge and top edge. The contents clean and fine. The dust jacket unclipped (18s net), gently rubbed at the corners and spine tips, but a bright and attractive copy overall.
The author’s first novel in English, a sharp and satirical ‘fantasy of the down-trodden man’ which follows a hen-pecked man suddenly become a charming, business-minded, womanising ‘dandy of the dance floor’, and all it took was an exploded bomb from the Second World War to break his Jekyll-shell.
CHAPELA, E. Salazar. Naked in Piccadilly. Trans. from the Spanish by Patricia Crampton. London: Abelard-Schuman. 1961. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s bright yellow cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Brian Paine. A very good or better copy, the cloth with one minor mark to the front board, but bright and sharp. The binding tight and square, with some mild spots to the fore-edge and top edge. The contents clean and fine. The dust jacket unclipped (18s net), gently rubbed at the corners and spine tips, but a bright and attractive copy overall.
The author’s first novel in English, a sharp and satirical ‘fantasy of the down-trodden man’ which follows a hen-pecked man suddenly become a charming, business-minded, womanising ‘dandy of the dance floor’, and all it took was an exploded bomb from the Second World War to break his Jekyll-shell.
