JOHNSON, Denis. Angels. London: Chatto & Windus and The Hogarth Press. 1984. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the stylish dust jacket by Donald Macpherson. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents clean, just very marginally toned from paper quality. The dust jacket price-clipped but otherwise fine.
The story of two losers and their ‘stunning, tragic odyssey through the dark flipside of America’, the author’s first novel and likened often to his excellent Jesus’ Son, deserving thus and at least a full read from this cataloguer. The first British edition here, a little less common than its US counterpart published a year previous.
JOHNSON, Denis. Angels. London: Chatto & Windus and The Hogarth Press. 1984. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the stylish dust jacket by Donald Macpherson. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents clean, just very marginally toned from paper quality. The dust jacket price-clipped but otherwise fine.
The story of two losers and their ‘stunning, tragic odyssey through the dark flipside of America’, the author’s first novel and likened often to his excellent Jesus’ Son, deserving thus and at least a full read from this cataloguer. The first British edition here, a little less common than its US counterpart published a year previous.
