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LIVING
by Green, Henry
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc, 1929. First American Edition. Green's second novel, centered around "a family business...an engineering works in Birmingham which a young man takes over from his dying father. But, despite the delicious satire on his position and love affairs, the book is really about skilled craftsmen, foremen and works managers in a phase of industrial depression" (Connolly, The Modern Movement 59). The book is notable for its deliberate lack of conjunctives, in order to reflect a proper Birmingham accent. A cornerstone work of modernist literature, uncommon in dustjacket. Bound from British sheets. Octavo (19.5cm); light gray cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [viii],269,[3]pp. Faint, scattered foxing to lower and right edge of textblock, else Near Fine. In the dustjacket designed by Kenneth Romney Towndrow; light wear to spine ends and extremities, some tiny, scattered soil spots to spine panel and rear flap fold, and a handful of tape-mended tears on verso; still a bright, Very Good+ example.
Synopsis
Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. He was born in 1905 at the family home of his parents, near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, England, and was educated at Eton and Oxford. He worked at the family engineering firm for most of his life and pursued a parallel career as a novelist. He married in 1928 and had one son. During WWII he served in the London Fire Brigade. He died in December 1973.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4342
- Title
- LIVING
- Author
- Green, Henry
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
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About the Seller
Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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Stephenson, Virginia
About Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Founded in 2010, Captain Ahab's Rare Books specializes in first editions of literature, genre fiction, film-related books and ephemera, zines, manuscript and archival material.
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- Good+
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
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- Fine
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- Spine
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