Price: £200
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1930
Stock Number: 76843
Priestley (J.B.)
Angel Pavement.
Description: FIRST EDITION, light spotting to prelims, pp. [vii], xiv, 613, 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, publisher device in blind to lower board, top edge blue now faded, other edges lightly spotted, free endpapers lightly browned, dustjacket with a design by Pinder Davis to front panel, slightly darkened to backstrip panel and borders, very good
Publication Details: William Heinemann, 1930
Notes: Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'Arthur and Trudy Bliss, with J.B. Priestley's good wishes, August 1930'. 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'. A novel of contemporary London.
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