LODWICK, John. The Butterfly-Net. London: Heinemann. 1954. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red clot lettered in gilt to the spine, in the striking dust jacket designed by Stein. A very good copy. The cloth clean and bright, gently bumped to corners and tips, a few mild marks. The binding tight and square, the contents generally clean. From the library of Bruce Marshall with his ink inscription to the front endpaper. The dust jacket unclipped, the spine slightly faded, gently nicked with some closed tears to corners and tips, faint ink transfer to the front flap, the flaps and rear panel spotted in places.
A sharp example of one of Lodwick’s later novels whose protagonist is surely some refection of the author—an author not long since returned from service in Greece, struggling to escape the clutches of his manipulative publisher, an evident gibe at his own publishers. Heinemann were surprisingly happy to continue publishing his work since they rated his novels and admired his ‘overwhelming charm and rascality of the good sort’, though several higher-ups thought him ‘remarkably careless’. Lodwick, like the previous owner, Bruce Marshall, was an SOE agent during the Second World War, and served with the The Special Boat Service.
LODWICK, John. The Butterfly-Net. London: Heinemann. 1954. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red clot lettered in gilt to the spine, in the striking dust jacket designed by Stein. A very good copy. The cloth clean and bright, gently bumped to corners and tips, a few mild marks. The binding tight and square, the contents generally clean. From the library of Bruce Marshall with his ink inscription to the front endpaper. The dust jacket unclipped, the spine slightly faded, gently nicked with some closed tears to corners and tips, faint ink transfer to the front flap, the flaps and rear panel spotted in places.
A sharp example of one of Lodwick’s later novels whose protagonist is surely some refection of the author—an author not long since returned from service in Greece, struggling to escape the clutches of his manipulative publisher, an evident gibe at his own publishers. Heinemann were surprisingly happy to continue publishing his work since they rated his novels and admired his ‘overwhelming charm and rascality of the good sort’, though several higher-ups thought him ‘remarkably careless’. Lodwick, like the previous owner, Bruce Marshall, was an SOE agent during the Second World War, and served with the The Special Boat Service.
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