Gilt Kid - BRILLIANT NEW EDITION OF RARE NOVEL!
Curtis, James - FIRST PRINTING THUS
Language: English
Published by London Books, 2007
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: THE BOOKSNIFFER, Lewes, East Sussex, United KingdomTHE BOOKSNIFFER
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First edition, first impression of this great thriller, by the undeservedly neglected James Curtis. This intensely vernacular novel deserves to be up there with those of his contemporaries Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood. Curtis, like so many with his middle class upbringing, embraced leftist politics in the 30s and he began writing novels about criminals, prostitutes, and boxers, almost as an attempt to understand or justify the underworld of crime. After the 1930s he disappeared, and today is one of literatures neglected but very worthwhile authors. These novels are hugely expensive in their original first editions, and this attractive new issue is a welcome chance to read this man again. Additionally, this has a worthwhile introduction from Paul Willetts that places this superb novel into context. Protected jacket, unread looking book, utterly collectable if you can't afford the 1930s original! Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. …
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- Title
- Gilt Kid - BRILLIANT NEW EDITION OF RARE NOVEL!
- Author
- Curtis, James - FIRST PRINTING THUS
- Publisher
- London Books
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0955185122
- ISBN 13
- 9780955185120
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
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About the Author
Curtis used his plots to highlight the unfairness of society and dearth of opportunity that often led people to break the law in those straitened times. The second world war interrupted his career and his literary momentum never recovered.
James Curtis was a psuedonym. He was born on July 4, 1907 in Sturry, Kent and was registered as Geoffrey Basil Maiden. His parents were hoteliers in India and later in England where Geoffrey attended King's School, Canterbury. During the war he served in France and Burma and rose to the rank of major. After the war his marriage had failed and his literary output was sparse. He died in north London in 1977 after suffering a heart attack in a chemist shop.
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