A. V. Carlsons 1948 Inbunden 352 sidor. Svenska glosor i marginalen. Något stött i kanten.

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Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No Jacket Cloth Second Edition Leonard Alfred George Strong (1896-17 August 1958) was an English writer, known as a novelist, journalist, poet and director of the publishers Methuen Ltd. He was born in Plymouth of a half-Irish father and Irish mother, and was educated at Brighton College and at Wadham College, Oxford (Open Classical Scholar) where he came under the influence of W. B. Yeats. He worked as an Assistant Master at Summer Fields, Oxford, between 1917-19 and 1920-30, and as a Visiting Tutor at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He was a director of the publishers Methuen Ltd. from 1938 until his death. He was a versatile writer of more than 20 novels, as well as plays, children's books, poems, biography, criticism, and film scripts. Some of his poems were set to music by Arthur Bliss. His novel, The Brothers, was filmed in 1947 by David Macdonald. Selected Poems appeared in 1931, and The Body's Imperfections: Collected Poems in 1957. He also collaborated with Cecil Day-Lewis in compiling anthologies.

Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Good Cloth First Edition One page loose.

Limited Edition Limited 161pp. Published simultaneously with the first edition, this is one of 500 limited-edition copies. Top edge gilt with silken page marker. Spine a little rolled, back cover bowed. Cream jacket chipped along the top and a bit grubbied.

Condition: Good. Spine faded. Bumped at head & tail of spine and corners. Inscription on fep. Page edges a little grubby. :: Further Information: Blue cloth with red titling on spine and front cover. 288pp First Edition. ::

1946 Methuen hardback book, no jacket, pages lightly tanned, fast dispatch from UK seller sku178