Very Good 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Good Cloth First Edition Bennett was born in a modest house in Hanley in the Potteries district of Staffordshire. Hanley is one of a conurbation of six towns which joined together at the beginning of the twentieth century as Stoke-on-Trent. Enoch Bennett, his father, qualified as a solicitor in 1876, and the family were able to move to a larger house between Hanley and Burslem. The younger Bennett was educated locally in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Arnold was employed by his father, his duties included rent collecting. He was unhappy working for his father as he was rather mean. In his spare time he found time to do a little journalism. At age the age of twenty-one he left his father's practice and went to London as a solicitor's clerk. He won a literary competition in Tit Bits magazine in 1889 and was encouraged to take up journalism full time. In 1894 he became assistant editor of the periodical Woman. He noticed that the material offered by a syndicate to the magazine was not very good, so he wrote a serial which was bought by the syndicate for £75. He then wrote another. This became The Grand Babylon Hotel. Just over four years later his first novel A Man from the North was published to critical acclaim and he became editor to the magazine. From 1900 he devoted himself full time to writing, giving up the editorship and writing much serious criticism, and also theatre journalism, one of his special interests. He moved to Trinity Hall Farm, Hockliffe, Bedfordshire on Watling Street which was the inspiration for his novel Teresa of Watling Street which came out in 1904. His father Enoch Bennett died there in 1902, and he is buried in Chalgrove churchyard. In 1902 Anna of the Five Towns, the first of a succession of stories which detailed life in the Potteries, appeared. In 1903 he moved to Paris, where other great artists from around the world had converged on Montmartre and Montparnasse. Bennett spent the next eight years writing novels and plays. In 1908 The Old Wives' Tale was published, and was an immediate success throughout the English-speaking world. After a visit to America in 1911 where he had been publicised and acclaimed as no other visiting writer since Dickens, he returned to England where the Old Wives' Tale was reappraised and hailed as a masterpiece. During the First World War, he became Director of Propaganda at the War Ministry. He refused a knighthood in 1918. He won the 1923 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Riceyman Steps and in 1926 at the suggestion of Lord Beaverbrook, he began writing an influential weekly article on books for the Evening Standard newspaper.

Laminated cover.Pamphlet,Ex-Library,with usual stamps markings, ,in good all-round condition, ,44pages. 150g ISBN:

Encadernado na cor marrom, muito bom estado, 230 páginas.

2nd impression. ~ cloth, dj, VG/VG. xxii+346pp, ex-lib with several stamps, protected dust jacket stuck to pastedowns. Not too bad a copy. ~ literary critisims, a history of the development of the english language novel from the emerging authors of the 20's to Kingsley Amis & Iris Murdoch.

1st edition. ~ Cloth, G. 319pp, cloth rather grubby, with a coffee? stain to the upper cover. SIGNED presentation copy from the author to Olivia Manning - For dear Olivia / with love and best wishes / from one damned egoist / to another / Walter Allen / 6-5-39 ~ An nice assocaition copy, which really needs rebinding.

1st edition. ~ Cloth, G++. 288pp, cloth rubbed, stain to bottom of spine. SIGNED presentation copy from the author to Olivia Manning - For dear Olivia Manning / with best wishes from / Walter Allen. ~ Nice signed copy. Allen not on as good a terms wiht Manning as he was a year later.

Sveriges Radio. 1963. Pocket. 223 s. Engelsk språkkurs i radio hösten 1963. Olika engelska författare presenteras. I slutet av boken ett engelsk-svenskt lexikon. Gott skick.

12mo over 6.75 - 7.75'' tall Nice Firm Clean copy ! Jacket has 2 long tears, edge wear. The English edition with U.S. publisher's labels pasted on title page and dj flap. Review copies for Alan Swallow Publishers, Denver. 58 pages. 7835