MYERS, L. H. Strange Glory. London: Putnam. 1936. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer. A very good or better copy. The cloth clean and bright, one or two corners just marginally pushed. The binding tight and square, with light spots to the textblock edges. The contents mostly fine, p. 13 snagged and slightly torn towards fore-edge affecting text, one presumes from a printing issue, with a small handful of singular spots only. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net) and complete, the spine a touch faded and water-stained, the corners and tips gently rubbed, but a presentable copy.
The author’s penultimate novel. Leopold Hamilton Myers was a veritable trust fund baby afforded all of life’s luxuries from childhood, marrying into extended wealth and travelling widely. His trilogy of sixteenth century India, The Root and the Flower, gained critical acclaim by way of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, a year prior to this publication. Yet by this time, he had eschewed his providential upbringing and tended towards Marxism. In 1938, George Orwell was severely ill and advised to spend winter in a warm climate. Myers anonymously gave Orwell £300 to enable this, and Orwell took it on the basis it be a loan, spending six months in Marrakech. It is in this time he was able to complete Coming Up for Air (1939)—Orwell eventually paid this ‘loan’ back after the success of Animal Farm (1945), never discovering the source. The McKnight Kauffer jacket is the second produced for a Myers novel, the first was for The Clio (1925), one of his most colourful designs.
MYERS, L. H. Strange Glory. London: Putnam. 1936. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer. A very good or better copy. The cloth clean and bright, one or two corners just marginally pushed. The binding tight and square, with light spots to the textblock edges. The contents mostly fine, p. 13 snagged and slightly torn towards fore-edge affecting text, one presumes from a printing issue, with a small handful of singular spots only. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net) and complete, the spine a touch faded and water-stained, the corners and tips gently rubbed, but a presentable copy.
The author’s penultimate novel. Leopold Hamilton Myers was a veritable trust fund baby afforded all of life’s luxuries from childhood, marrying into extended wealth and travelling widely. His trilogy of sixteenth century India, The Root and the Flower, gained critical acclaim by way of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, a year prior to this publication. Yet by this time, he had eschewed his providential upbringing and tended towards Marxism. In 1938, George Orwell was severely ill and advised to spend winter in a warm climate. Myers anonymously gave Orwell £300 to enable this, and Orwell took it on the basis it be a loan, spending six months in Marrakech. It is in this time he was able to complete Coming Up for Air (1939)—Orwell eventually paid this ‘loan’ back after the success of Animal Farm (1945), never discovering the source. The McKnight Kauffer jacket is the second produced for a Myers novel, the first was for The Clio (1925), one of his most colourful designs.
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