HUDSON, Stephen. The Other Side (signed)
HUDSON, Stephen. The Other Side. London: The Cresset Press. 1937. 8vo. 288pp. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in black and gilt to the spine and upper board. In the striking dust jacket designed by S. A. Watkins which is somewhat reminiscent of the work of Edward McKnight Kauffer. Inscribed by the author to the second blank, “Dear David, I want you to have this book of mine as a reminder of my affection for you” and dated in the month of publication, 18 February 1937. A very good, clean copy, the cloth bright and unmarked, the binding tight and very gently rolled. The contents clean and bright, with some toning to p.153 due to a loosely inserted St. Moritz dinner menu which is retained. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net), chipped at both the spine foot and around the crown leading in to front panel. Some rubbing and mild nicks to other corners and edges, but a handsome copy overall.
Stephen Hudson was a pseudonym of Sydney Schiff, who was born into a wealthy Jewish family in London. Early in his life, Schiff discovered the joy of the arts, eagerly using his wealth to support numerous authors, many of whom closely or vaguely relating to early Modernism. Indeed, though his own literary career was generally well-received in his lifetime, his legacy remains as a patron of the arts; he supported Wyndham Lewis’ The Tyro (1921) and Osbert Sitwell’s Arts & Letters (1919)—meanwhile befriending many a famous face; T. S. Eliot, John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield, Charles Scott Moncrieff, and James Joyce, whom he introduced to Marcel Proust in the famously awkward meeting of 1922. Proust and Schiff hit it off, with Schiff translating Proust’s final volume in Remembrance of Things Past and trying, and ultimately failing, to convince Picasso to paint Proust. Most of Schiff’s novels are roman-à-clefs and this final novel does not deviate, following his alter ego, Richard Kurt, in his earlier life, working for his uncle in America. Scarce in the jacket and equally so inscribed.
HUDSON, Stephen. The Other Side. London: The Cresset Press. 1937. 8vo. 288pp. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in black and gilt to the spine and upper board. In the striking dust jacket designed by S. A. Watkins which is somewhat reminiscent of the work of Edward McKnight Kauffer. Inscribed by the author to the second blank, “Dear David, I want you to have this book of mine as a reminder of my affection for you” and dated in the month of publication, 18 February 1937. A very good, clean copy, the cloth bright and unmarked, the binding tight and very gently rolled. The contents clean and bright, with some toning to p.153 due to a loosely inserted St. Moritz dinner menu which is retained. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net), chipped at both the spine foot and around the crown leading in to front panel. Some rubbing and mild nicks to other corners and edges, but a handsome copy overall.
Stephen Hudson was a pseudonym of Sydney Schiff, who was born into a wealthy Jewish family in London. Early in his life, Schiff discovered the joy of the arts, eagerly using his wealth to support numerous authors, many of whom closely or vaguely relating to early Modernism. Indeed, though his own literary career was generally well-received in his lifetime, his legacy remains as a patron of the arts; he supported Wyndham Lewis’ The Tyro (1921) and Osbert Sitwell’s Arts & Letters (1919)—meanwhile befriending many a famous face; T. S. Eliot, John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield, Charles Scott Moncrieff, and James Joyce, whom he introduced to Marcel Proust in the famously awkward meeting of 1922. Proust and Schiff hit it off, with Schiff translating Proust’s final volume in Remembrance of Things Past and trying, and ultimately failing, to convince Picasso to paint Proust. Most of Schiff’s novels are roman-à-clefs and this final novel does not deviate, following his alter ego, Richard Kurt, in his earlier life, working for his uncle in America. Scarce in the jacket and equally so inscribed.
HUDSON, Stephen. The Other Side. London: The Cresset Press. 1937. 8vo. 288pp. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in black and gilt to the spine and upper board. In the striking dust jacket designed by S. A. Watkins which is somewhat reminiscent of the work of Edward McKnight Kauffer. Inscribed by the author to the second blank, “Dear David, I want you to have this book of mine as a reminder of my affection for you” and dated in the month of publication, 18 February 1937. A very good, clean copy, the cloth bright and unmarked, the binding tight and very gently rolled. The contents clean and bright, with some toning to p.153 due to a loosely inserted St. Moritz dinner menu which is retained. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net), chipped at both the spine foot and around the crown leading in to front panel. Some rubbing and mild nicks to other corners and edges, but a handsome copy overall.
Stephen Hudson was a pseudonym of Sydney Schiff, who was born into a wealthy Jewish family in London. Early in his life, Schiff discovered the joy of the arts, eagerly using his wealth to support numerous authors, many of whom closely or vaguely relating to early Modernism. Indeed, though his own literary career was generally well-received in his lifetime, his legacy remains as a patron of the arts; he supported Wyndham Lewis’ The Tyro (1921) and Osbert Sitwell’s Arts & Letters (1919)—meanwhile befriending many a famous face; T. S. Eliot, John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield, Charles Scott Moncrieff, and James Joyce, whom he introduced to Marcel Proust in the famously awkward meeting of 1922. Proust and Schiff hit it off, with Schiff translating Proust’s final volume in Remembrance of Things Past and trying, and ultimately failing, to convince Picasso to paint Proust. Most of Schiff’s novels are roman-à-clefs and this final novel does not deviate, following his alter ego, Richard Kurt, in his earlier life, working for his uncle in America. Scarce in the jacket and equally so inscribed.