MANHOOD, H. A., Gay Agony
MANHOOD, Harold Alfred. Gay Agony. London: Jonathan Cape. 1930. 8vo. First edition, being one of a limited edition of 2000 numbered copies, this number 1836. Publisher's grey buckram lettered in dark green to the spine and upper board, in the original dust jacket. A very good copy, the cloth just a little toned to the spine, but the binding tight and just a trifle rolled. The contents fine but for a little offsetting to endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6s net) and complete, the spine panel gently faded with a couple of tiny chips at spine head and tail, and corners. Joints a trifle rubbed.
The mysterious author's only novel, published in the midst of a flurry of work which appeared--none of which is now in print--before he disappeared into the ether, despite lofty comparisons to Graham Greene, Dylan Thomas, and Edward Garnett, to whom the book is dedicated. His disappearance, purportedly due to his growing frustrations with editorial interference, led him to buy a plot of land and start his own cider brewery, never writing a word from 1953 in spite of living for another 40 years.
MANHOOD, Harold Alfred. Gay Agony. London: Jonathan Cape. 1930. 8vo. First edition, being one of a limited edition of 2000 numbered copies, this number 1836. Publisher's grey buckram lettered in dark green to the spine and upper board, in the original dust jacket. A very good copy, the cloth just a little toned to the spine, but the binding tight and just a trifle rolled. The contents fine but for a little offsetting to endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6s net) and complete, the spine panel gently faded with a couple of tiny chips at spine head and tail, and corners. Joints a trifle rubbed.
The mysterious author's only novel, published in the midst of a flurry of work which appeared--none of which is now in print--before he disappeared into the ether, despite lofty comparisons to Graham Greene, Dylan Thomas, and Edward Garnett, to whom the book is dedicated. His disappearance, purportedly due to his growing frustrations with editorial interference, led him to buy a plot of land and start his own cider brewery, never writing a word from 1953 in spite of living for another 40 years.
MANHOOD, Harold Alfred. Gay Agony. London: Jonathan Cape. 1930. 8vo. First edition, being one of a limited edition of 2000 numbered copies, this number 1836. Publisher's grey buckram lettered in dark green to the spine and upper board, in the original dust jacket. A very good copy, the cloth just a little toned to the spine, but the binding tight and just a trifle rolled. The contents fine but for a little offsetting to endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6s net) and complete, the spine panel gently faded with a couple of tiny chips at spine head and tail, and corners. Joints a trifle rubbed.
The mysterious author's only novel, published in the midst of a flurry of work which appeared--none of which is now in print--before he disappeared into the ether, despite lofty comparisons to Graham Greene, Dylan Thomas, and Edward Garnett, to whom the book is dedicated. His disappearance, purportedly due to his growing frustrations with editorial interference, led him to buy a plot of land and start his own cider brewery, never writing a word from 1953 in spite of living for another 40 years.