The Dark Thorn.

Gardiner (Wrey)

The Dark Thorn.

Description: FIRST EDITION, frontispiece portrait by Gregorio Prieto, some annotation in ink to margins (predominantly highly critical), pp. 227, 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket a little toned and rubbed, very good

Publication Details: The Grey Walls Press, 1946

Notes: Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'For Martin J. Cohn, With all good wishes from Charles Wrey Gardiner, June 24th 1949'. Whether the recipient is responsible for the entertainingly savage annotation is hard to deduce: 'Miserable way to begin a book', 'Horribly banal', 'Lousy simile', 'Pitiable', the reader rages, climaxing in a longer complaint that declares 'enough is enough' - at which point the marginalia, and presumably the reading, ceases.]This reader's objections notwithstanding, Gardiner's third volume of autobiography, published by his own Grey Walls Press, is an entertainingly ...moreInscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'For Martin J. Cohn, With all good wishes from Charles Wrey Gardiner, June 24th 1949'. Whether the recipient is responsible for the entertainingly savage annotation is hard to deduce: 'Miserable way to begin a book', 'Horribly banal', 'Lousy simile', 'Pitiable', the reader rages, climaxing in a longer complaint that declares 'enough is enough' - at which point the marginalia, and presumably the reading, ceases.]This reader's objections notwithstanding, Gardiner's third volume of autobiography, published by his own Grey Walls Press, is an entertainingly inconsequential account of his literary and publishing activities, touching on Joyce and Eliot (as towering figures of their generation) as well as on his own immediate circle. HIDE