MURRY, Colin. A Path to the Sea (signed)
MURRY, Colin. A Path to the Sea. London: Hutchinson. 1961. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in white to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Jillian Willett. This copy inscribed by the author to the title page, "To my friend Johnny Christal - Albourne July 1967". A sharp copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents fine but for a little offsetting to endpapers and small stain to bottom edge. The dust jacket unclipped (16s net), a trifle nicked to a few corners and gently rubbed to edges, else sharp.
Colin Murry was a pseudonym for John Middleton Murry Jr., son of the prolific author and close acquaintance of T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence, and second husband of Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry. Jr. evidently had some serious daddy issues, his father constantly criticising his output, hence the pseudonym--Jr. also published science fiction under the pseudonym Richard Cowper. Despite that, his prose here appears to be terrifically, unapologetically and unsentimentally emotional. Scarce.
MURRY, Colin. A Path to the Sea. London: Hutchinson. 1961. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in white to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Jillian Willett. This copy inscribed by the author to the title page, "To my friend Johnny Christal - Albourne July 1967". A sharp copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents fine but for a little offsetting to endpapers and small stain to bottom edge. The dust jacket unclipped (16s net), a trifle nicked to a few corners and gently rubbed to edges, else sharp.
Colin Murry was a pseudonym for John Middleton Murry Jr., son of the prolific author and close acquaintance of T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence, and second husband of Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry. Jr. evidently had some serious daddy issues, his father constantly criticising his output, hence the pseudonym--Jr. also published science fiction under the pseudonym Richard Cowper. Despite that, his prose here appears to be terrifically, unapologetically and unsentimentally emotional. Scarce.
MURRY, Colin. A Path to the Sea. London: Hutchinson. 1961. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in white to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Jillian Willett. This copy inscribed by the author to the title page, "To my friend Johnny Christal - Albourne July 1967". A sharp copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents fine but for a little offsetting to endpapers and small stain to bottom edge. The dust jacket unclipped (16s net), a trifle nicked to a few corners and gently rubbed to edges, else sharp.
Colin Murry was a pseudonym for John Middleton Murry Jr., son of the prolific author and close acquaintance of T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence, and second husband of Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry. Jr. evidently had some serious daddy issues, his father constantly criticising his output, hence the pseudonym--Jr. also published science fiction under the pseudonym Richard Cowper. Despite that, his prose here appears to be terrifically, unapologetically and unsentimentally emotional. Scarce.