Price: £200
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1932
Stock Number: 76838
Priestley (J.B.)
Self-Selected Essays.
Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. vi, [1], 319, crown 8vo, original quarter black cloth, patterned blue cloth sides, the backstrip lettered in gilt and slightly nicked at ends with a couple of small spots to centre, lightly rubbed at extremities, top corners slightly bumped, edges toned, small trace of cracking to front hinge, dustjacket with and a few spots, touch of internal repair at head of browned backstrip panel, good
Publication Details: William Heinemann, 1932
Notes: Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'Arthur and Trudy Bliss, from their friend Jack Priestley, April 23rd 1932'. The friendship of Priestley with the composer had begun in the 1920s, when they were neighbours in Chelsea, and yielded a collaboration in 1949, with Priestley writing the libretto for Bliss's opera 'The Olympians'.
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