After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie.
by RHYS, Jean
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Jonathan Cape,, 1931. Her early autobiographical novel, set in interwar Paris and London First edition, first impression, a handsomely bound copy of the author's second novel, a "perfectly told tragedy of a young woman who was equally lost in the narrow world of Paris and the wide world of London. More, much more, will be heard of this unsentimental and assured young author" (Daily Herald, 12 Feb. 1931, p. 6). This title was published before Rhys slipped into obscurity and poverty. In 1949 the actress Selma Vaz Dias placed an advertisement in the papers enquiring for Rhys's whereabouts and seeking her permission to adapt another of her novels, Good Morning, Midnight (1939), into a BBC programme. This contact, and further efforts by Vaz Dias and others in the publishing field, led to Rhys's re-emergence into the literary community, the republication of her books, which had fallen out of print, and the eventual publication of her masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). "Like other modernist writers, Jean Rhys transformed autobiography into art. Her first four novels have contemporary metropolitan settings, London or Paris, sometimes both; they all centre on a heroine, drifting, unsettled, and displaced, living in rented rooms or cheap hotels, economically dependent on men, aware that her sexuality may be her only means of survival" (ODNB). Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands with gilt beaded roll, twin gilt rule on turn-ins, burgundy endpapers, edges gilt. A fine copy.
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Penguin Modern Classics
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140793
- Title
- After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie.
- Author
- RHYS, Jean
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Jonathan Cape,
- Date Published
- 1931
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Peter Harrington
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About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...