The Bells of Shoreditch. A novel.

JAMES KENNAWAY. [Alan Ross].

Published by Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd., London, 1963

About this Item

First Edition (first printing). Poet and editor Alan Ross's copy, with his ownership name inked to the tip of the front free endpaper. 8vo. 212pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny miscellaneous blemish to the margin of one text leaf, else a virtually fine copy in lightly rubbed and dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with some toning to the spine panel. The author's third book. In his capacity as editor of 'The London Magazine', Alan Ross awarded Kennaway a magnum of champagne ("which is worth, at current prices, more than the Prix Goncourt") for his previous novel Household Ghosts, calling it "as elegant, stylish, difficult and humanly rewarding a book as anything since the early Henry Green. Compared to the puffed up, slipshod, facetious and over-praised novels of Miss X and Mr Y this seemed like the work of a dedicated and lonely master". Seller Inventory # BC18264

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Bells of Shoreditch. A novel.

Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd., London

Publication Date: 1963

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition