Chalk and Cheese.

(Dennis.) VAUGHAN (Richard, pseud. for Nigel Dennis)

Chalk and Cheese.

A Co-Educational School Novel.

Description: FIRST EDITION, a few spots to head of half-title and title-page, recurrent occasionally, a mark to fore-margin carrying through a few leaves at close, pp. 311, crown 8vo, original black cloth with illustration stamped in white to upper board, the lettering to upper board and backstrip in same, some light wear to tail and a chip at head of backstrip affecting a few letters of title, top edge red, a few spots to fore-edge, the dustjacket blurb tipped to front pastedown, successive ownership inscriptions of Alice B. Davis and James Stern (see below) to flyleaf, clippings concerning later work by the author laid in, good

Publication Details: John Miles, 1934

Notes: The author's first novel, and altogether scarce - outside the domestic legal deposit libraries, there is a copy at the London Library and NYPL. Published at the age of 22, it is based on his own transition from schools in Southern Rhodesia to Austria; its juvenile origins probably explain in large part the swiftness of its disavowal by Dennis, and perhaps some hesitation at the portrayal of its Jewish antagonist in light of the developing European situation, though it is an assured enough debut - the depiction of cultural differences enacted partly through a romance 'with a girl who upholds [...moreThe author's first novel, and altogether scarce - outside the domestic legal deposit libraries, there is a copy at the London Library and NYPL. Published at the age of 22, it is based on his own transition from schools in Southern Rhodesia to Austria; its juvenile origins probably explain in large part the swiftness of its disavowal by Dennis, and perhaps some hesitation at the portrayal of its Jewish antagonist in light of the developing European situation, though it is an assured enough debut - the depiction of cultural differences enacted partly through a romance 'with a girl who upholds [...] most modern opinions' (dustjacket blurb).Latterly in the collection of author James Stern, who has noted the author's identity in pencil to the title-page. HIDE

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Price: £600

Subject: Modern First Edition

Published Date: 1934

Stock Number: 67981

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