ID: 1789
Living.
GREEN, Henry

Category: First Edition

Place/Publisher/Date:
London, Dent. 1929.

Description: First edition; 8vo; original cloth boards and dust jacket. One of Cyril Connolly's 100 Key Books of the Modern Movement. Connolly states "...it is a work of astonishing maturity and brilliance, showing a complete mastery of unfamiliar speech rhythms and a grasp of working-class character...It is also a poetical novel rich in unusual imagery and juxtapositions and with a bubbling and lacerating wit..." A fine copy, with slight spotting to the edge of the text block, in a near fine dust jacket, which has minor wear to the extremities and a short closed tear to the foot of the front cover. Connolly 59.

Price £3,750.00