HINDE, Thomas. Mr. Nicholas. London: MacGibbon & Kee. 1952. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine, in the dust jacket designed by Peter Curl. A very good copy, the cloth clean, the gilt lettering oxidised and dulled. The binding tight and square, some light spots to textblock edges and a handful of singular spots within, but mostly fine without stamps or inscriptions. The dust jacket unclipped, slightly rubbed and nicked around corners and spine head and tail, a few spots to white segments of front and rear panels, but still a presentable copy.
The author’s first novel. Though a part of the Kingsley Amis and Alan Sillitoe generation of acclaimed British authors, Hinde’s literary legacy seems to have shrivelled far more so than his contemporaries. This novel about a seemingly Ballardian eccentric on a potentially grand scale and his detachment from his unreal life. Uncommon.
HINDE, Thomas. Mr. Nicholas. London: MacGibbon & Kee. 1952. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine, in the dust jacket designed by Peter Curl. A very good copy, the cloth clean, the gilt lettering oxidised and dulled. The binding tight and square, some light spots to textblock edges and a handful of singular spots within, but mostly fine without stamps or inscriptions. The dust jacket unclipped, slightly rubbed and nicked around corners and spine head and tail, a few spots to white segments of front and rear panels, but still a presentable copy.
The author’s first novel. Though a part of the Kingsley Amis and Alan Sillitoe generation of acclaimed British authors, Hinde’s literary legacy seems to have shrivelled far more so than his contemporaries. This novel about a seemingly Ballardian eccentric on a potentially grand scale and his detachment from his unreal life. Uncommon.
