MANHOOD, Harold Alfred. Apples by Midnight. London: Jonathan Cape. 1932. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in yellow to the spine, in the geometric dust jacket. A very good copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the textblock edges spotted, and light spots to prelims, else fine. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net), slightly rubbed to corners and tips, some light marks, but a handsome copy.
A companion volume of short stories to the author’s acclaimed Nightseed (1928), whose success allowed him to write full-time, published just after his now cultish Gay Agony (1930). A master of the short story form, Manhood leans on ‘folk wisdom and a sense of allegory or fable which hovers on the brink of the fantastic without embracing it fully’ [Valentine]. He famously lived much of his life in an old railway carriage, growing his own food and brewing his own cider in the Sussex countryside.
MANHOOD, Harold Alfred. Apples by Midnight. London: Jonathan Cape. 1932. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in yellow to the spine, in the geometric dust jacket. A very good copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the textblock edges spotted, and light spots to prelims, else fine. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net), slightly rubbed to corners and tips, some light marks, but a handsome copy.
A companion volume of short stories to the author’s acclaimed Nightseed (1928), whose success allowed him to write full-time, published just after his now cultish Gay Agony (1930). A master of the short story form, Manhood leans on ‘folk wisdom and a sense of allegory or fable which hovers on the brink of the fantastic without embracing it fully’ [Valentine]. He famously lived much of his life in an old railway carriage, growing his own food and brewing his own cider in the Sussex countryside.
