SHEPARD, Graham. Tea Tray in the Sky
SHEPARD, Graham. Tea Tray in the Sky. London: Arthur Barker. 1934. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by the author. A very good example, the cloth clean and bright, gently pushed at extremities. The binding tight and square, the textblock edges gently spotted, the endpapers and prelims with some light scattered foxing, then usually fine. The dust jacket unclipped (8s 6d net) and complete, the spine panel darkened with remnants of a reprice sticker to lower. Some faint spots and light marks to all panels, the corners and tips very gently bumped.
A curious novel by the son of Winnie the Pooh illustrator, Ernest Shepard. Graham followed in his father’s footsteps as an illustrator, working for the London Illustrated News, but this appears to be his only novel. The story follows one woman, Maureen, on a mystical journey of re- or self-discovery. Themes of death and suicide emerge, and the jacket’s dominating cathedral plays its own part—’this monstrosity of Victorian Gothic is the fitting background of Maureen’s queer apotheosis, and of the ironical injustice of her downfall’. The basis of the novel likely comes from Shepard’s friendship with Louis MacNeice—they were Marlborough College fellas—and their teachings of Neoplatonism by the classicist E. R. Dodds. Uncommon, especially in the jacket.
SHEPARD, Graham. Tea Tray in the Sky. London: Arthur Barker. 1934. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by the author. A very good example, the cloth clean and bright, gently pushed at extremities. The binding tight and square, the textblock edges gently spotted, the endpapers and prelims with some light scattered foxing, then usually fine. The dust jacket unclipped (8s 6d net) and complete, the spine panel darkened with remnants of a reprice sticker to lower. Some faint spots and light marks to all panels, the corners and tips very gently bumped.
A curious novel by the son of Winnie the Pooh illustrator, Ernest Shepard. Graham followed in his father’s footsteps as an illustrator, working for the London Illustrated News, but this appears to be his only novel. The story follows one woman, Maureen, on a mystical journey of re- or self-discovery. Themes of death and suicide emerge, and the jacket’s dominating cathedral plays its own part—’this monstrosity of Victorian Gothic is the fitting background of Maureen’s queer apotheosis, and of the ironical injustice of her downfall’. The basis of the novel likely comes from Shepard’s friendship with Louis MacNeice—they were Marlborough College fellas—and their teachings of Neoplatonism by the classicist E. R. Dodds. Uncommon, especially in the jacket.
SHEPARD, Graham. Tea Tray in the Sky. London: Arthur Barker. 1934. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by the author. A very good example, the cloth clean and bright, gently pushed at extremities. The binding tight and square, the textblock edges gently spotted, the endpapers and prelims with some light scattered foxing, then usually fine. The dust jacket unclipped (8s 6d net) and complete, the spine panel darkened with remnants of a reprice sticker to lower. Some faint spots and light marks to all panels, the corners and tips very gently bumped.
A curious novel by the son of Winnie the Pooh illustrator, Ernest Shepard. Graham followed in his father’s footsteps as an illustrator, working for the London Illustrated News, but this appears to be his only novel. The story follows one woman, Maureen, on a mystical journey of re- or self-discovery. Themes of death and suicide emerge, and the jacket’s dominating cathedral plays its own part—’this monstrosity of Victorian Gothic is the fitting background of Maureen’s queer apotheosis, and of the ironical injustice of her downfall’. The basis of the novel likely comes from Shepard’s friendship with Louis MacNeice—they were Marlborough College fellas—and their teachings of Neoplatonism by the classicist E. R. Dodds. Uncommon, especially in the jacket.