DAVEY, Norman. Judgment Day. London: Constable. 1928. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s brown cloth lettered in yellow to the spine and front board, in the dust jacket designed by a young Edward Ardizzone, signed EJIA, denoting his full name, Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone, in a unique style adopted briefly and usually for Constable, before he progressed the style he became inimitably associated with. This copy very good indeed. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents fine throughout. The dust jacket unclipped (7/6 net) with several small nicks and tiny chips around the spine tips and corners, very gently bumped to extremities. A splendid copy.
A quasi-Biblical Day of Judgment encroaches on the sleepy West Country town of Quaire and its inhabitants who exude a modern nonchalance for war, revolution, and all things proper, much to the frustration of the author, it seems. The novel plays out from there, following a series of trials for the various townsfolk, some admitted to Paradise, others ‘cast back to the earth they defiled’. Davey’s best known work was The Pilgrim of a Smile (1921), a similar half-fantasy mixing a bit of frivolity with a perhaps only half-serious satirical tone. In Bleiler. Ardizzone’s design for the novel seems to capture that essential spirit—note the man skulking past the graveyard, the grieving man burying —, or the gent copping a feel. Uncommon.
DAVEY, Norman. Judgment Day. London: Constable. 1928. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s brown cloth lettered in yellow to the spine and front board, in the dust jacket designed by a young Edward Ardizzone, signed EJIA, denoting his full name, Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone, in a unique style adopted briefly and usually for Constable, before he progressed the style he became inimitably associated with. This copy very good indeed. The cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents fine throughout. The dust jacket unclipped (7/6 net) with several small nicks and tiny chips around the spine tips and corners, very gently bumped to extremities. A splendid copy.
A quasi-Biblical Day of Judgment encroaches on the sleepy West Country town of Quaire and its inhabitants who exude a modern nonchalance for war, revolution, and all things proper, much to the frustration of the author, it seems. The novel plays out from there, following a series of trials for the various townsfolk, some admitted to Paradise, others ‘cast back to the earth they defiled’. Davey’s best known work was The Pilgrim of a Smile (1921), a similar half-fantasy mixing a bit of frivolity with a perhaps only half-serious satirical tone. In Bleiler. Ardizzone’s design for the novel seems to capture that essential spirit—note the man skulking past the graveyard, the grieving man burying —, or the gent copping a feel. Uncommon.
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