WOODS, Fay. Burnt White
WOODS, Fay. Burnt White. London: Cassell. 1931. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s dark blue cloth lettered in cream to the spine, in the excellent dust jacket with a wraparound design along the upper half by P. Youngman Carter. A very good copy, the cloth clean, bright, and just a trifle bumped at extremities. The binding tight and a trifle rolled, some light spots to the textblock edges, endpapers and a handful of minor marks within, but often fine. Small bookseller label to front pastedown. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to spine amended in ink below, corners and tips very gently bumped and rubbed, but complete and nevertheless presentable.
The author’s first and seemingly only novel, about a poor Liverpool dock labourer and his upright, hard-working life. The protagonist manages to escape the slums and rises through the ranks of a bank before ‘a pair of Irish eyes’ muddy his aspirations. The Youngman Carter design excellently depicts the dockyard with billowing smoke across the city. Scarce. OCLC locates four copies.
WOODS, Fay. Burnt White. London: Cassell. 1931. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s dark blue cloth lettered in cream to the spine, in the excellent dust jacket with a wraparound design along the upper half by P. Youngman Carter. A very good copy, the cloth clean, bright, and just a trifle bumped at extremities. The binding tight and a trifle rolled, some light spots to the textblock edges, endpapers and a handful of minor marks within, but often fine. Small bookseller label to front pastedown. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to spine amended in ink below, corners and tips very gently bumped and rubbed, but complete and nevertheless presentable.
The author’s first and seemingly only novel, about a poor Liverpool dock labourer and his upright, hard-working life. The protagonist manages to escape the slums and rises through the ranks of a bank before ‘a pair of Irish eyes’ muddy his aspirations. The Youngman Carter design excellently depicts the dockyard with billowing smoke across the city. Scarce. OCLC locates four copies.
WOODS, Fay. Burnt White. London: Cassell. 1931. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s dark blue cloth lettered in cream to the spine, in the excellent dust jacket with a wraparound design along the upper half by P. Youngman Carter. A very good copy, the cloth clean, bright, and just a trifle bumped at extremities. The binding tight and a trifle rolled, some light spots to the textblock edges, endpapers and a handful of minor marks within, but often fine. Small bookseller label to front pastedown. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to spine amended in ink below, corners and tips very gently bumped and rubbed, but complete and nevertheless presentable.
The author’s first and seemingly only novel, about a poor Liverpool dock labourer and his upright, hard-working life. The protagonist manages to escape the slums and rises through the ranks of a bank before ‘a pair of Irish eyes’ muddy his aspirations. The Youngman Carter design excellently depicts the dockyard with billowing smoke across the city. Scarce. OCLC locates four copies.