Thomas Hinde Sir Thomas Willes Chitty (3 results)

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Octavo. 140pp. Original red boards with gilt spine titles. Very light bumping to spine ends, otherwise near fine in a slightly edge nicked, very good indeed, unclipped dust jacket.

A charming first edition with original dust-jacket of Thomas Hinde's debut novel. Published a year after his marriage to the fellow novelist, Susan Hopkinson (herself daughter of the novelist, Antonia White), this novel was well received and prompted its author's career as a fiction and then a non-fiction writer. The London Review of Books called Mr. Nicholas 'exquisitely glum and fearingly funny'. Hinde's second novel, Happy As Larry, retained this disaffected humorous tone, and was excerpted in the popular paperback anthology, Protest: The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men, placing its author in the circles of counter culture and mid-century intellectual history. First edition; 8vo; publisher's brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, a very good copy with uncut pictorial dust-jacket, lettering on spine lightly faded, dust-jacket browned on spine panel, light rubbing to corners especially on upper spine panel, offsetting on jacket verso and light stains on back panel; 271pp.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A lovely first edition of Thomas Hinde's first novel, a scarce copy complete with its unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this work, a scarce copy. Sir Thomas Willes Chitty's first novel, published under pen name Thomas Hinde. Following the story of Mr Nicholas, eccentric man, his wife and three sons. Themes include cruelty, uneasy laughter, and, the unbearable closeness of family, affection and tolerance in the face of misunderstanding.Complete with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. In the original cloth binding in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally in excellent condition with just slight bumping to the extremities. Dust wrapper is generally smart with chipping and the occasional closed tear to the extremities, Closed tear, approximately one and a half inches in length to rear of the wrap. Spotting and handling marks to wrap. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with just very marginal age toning. Near Fine. None (illustrator). book.…