- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Deep Neutral Books, York, England, United KingdomDeep Neutral Books
AbeBooks seller since January 28, 2021
Association member: PBFA
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 500.00
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PYKE, Richard. The Lives & Deaths of Roland Greer. London: Richard Cobden Sanderson. 1928. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in pale red to the spine, in the marvellous dust jacket designed by John Gower Parks. This copy inscribed by the author at the front endpaper: ‘Inscribed by the author for Lancelot Simpson, who paid him the compliment of buying this copy. Richard Pyke, February 27th 1932’, with two further authorial annotations to margins of the text. A very good example, the cloth very gently bumped to spine tips with some very faint marks to boards. The binding tight and square, the contents largely fine, with obituary clipping pasted in to front pastedown beneath the jacket flap, the endpapers slightly toned, else clean throughout. The dust jacket complete, priced 7/6 net to the spine panel which is slightly faded and toned, the corners and spine tips gently rubbed with some small nicks, one closed tear to the front joint lower, but a delightful copy overall. An uncommon psychological novel whose principal character—the titular Roland, a spiritual hermaphrodite—leads the author’s only novel to appear on many a list of gay literature. Though this is categorically true, the novel seems fundamentally a psychological study of personality over sex and sexuality, at least on this cataloguer’s brief reading, and always with a burgeoning interior quarrel, existential, with some sharp sections on religion and atheism. Pyke was educated at Clifton College and, after a short war service, read Economics at King’s College, Cambridge. After postgraduate study in the field of psychology, he undertook a series of investigations on ‘The Legibility of Print’ for the Medical Research Council which remains a foundational text on the subject. He died in Shanghai in 1938, at the age of 38, hence this one and only novel—a travel book was his only other creative output. Of equal interest is the dust jacket designer; John Gower Parks, a theatre set designer and artist whose foray into this medium is very limited indeed. Scarce, especially with author’s inscription.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Lives and Deaths of Roland Greer
- Author
- Richard Pyke
- Publisher
- Cobden Sanderson
- Publication year
- 1928
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 1 kilogram
Deep Neutral Books
York, England, United Kingdom
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Buyer, seller, and collector of modern first editions, often signed. I have a particular interest in contemporary literature, modernism, postmodernism, post-postmodernism, and counterculture, though I often delve into science-fiction, philosophy, high fantasy, and more. Based in York, UK. All items are carefully packed, tracked and will arrive promptly. If you have any questions, please get in touch. I am a full member of PBFA and adhere to its codes of practice and guidelines.
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