LANDSTONE, Charles. The Man from Butler's. London: John Murray. 1930. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine and upper board, in the sumptuous art deco dust jacket designed by the ever-impressive and frustratingly elusive Baird. A very good copy overall, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square. The contents clean and bright throughout but for a touch of offsetting to endpapers. The dust jacket correctly priced at 7/6 net to the spine panel, some small nicks and tiny chips to the corners and spine tips, light marks to the white sections of the design. A bright example, with the publisher’s original advertising slip for the novel loosely inserted.
The third novel by the Viennese-born Landstone, who moved with his parents from Austria as a child. The titular man from Butler’s is the servant of a famous travel agency, the story one ‘of restlessness both of mind and body’, leading to a marriage breakdown and a gruesome albeit somewhat accidental remedy. Landstone himself worked as a jet-setting travel agent courier and the work is a celebration of that world, with a spot of the old death. He became better known in later life, as a leading light of the London theatre scene and drama critic at the Jewish Chronicle. Scarce. OCLC locates three copies across Britain.
LANDSTONE, Charles. The Man from Butler's. London: John Murray. 1930. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine and upper board, in the sumptuous art deco dust jacket designed by the ever-impressive and frustratingly elusive Baird. A very good copy overall, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square. The contents clean and bright throughout but for a touch of offsetting to endpapers. The dust jacket correctly priced at 7/6 net to the spine panel, some small nicks and tiny chips to the corners and spine tips, light marks to the white sections of the design. A bright example, with the publisher’s original advertising slip for the novel loosely inserted.
The third novel by the Viennese-born Landstone, who moved with his parents from Austria as a child. The titular man from Butler’s is the servant of a famous travel agency, the story one ‘of restlessness both of mind and body’, leading to a marriage breakdown and a gruesome albeit somewhat accidental remedy. Landstone himself worked as a jet-setting travel agent courier and the work is a celebration of that world, with a spot of the old death. He became better known in later life, as a leading light of the London theatre scene and drama critic at the Jewish Chronicle. Scarce. OCLC locates three copies across Britain.
