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Good Morning Midnight.
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: Constable & Company Ltd,, 1939. First edition, first impression, second issue binding without endpapers, of the fourth and final interwar work by Rhys, set in Paris. The experimental modernist novel was critically well-received, but initial sales were poor and Rhys spent a decade after the novel's publication living in obscurity. In 1949 a theatrical adaptation of the novel was created, for which she was tracked down via newspaper advertisements to obtain her permission. Rhys credited this renewed interest in her for a second burst of literary output, and in 1966 published her final novel, Wide Sargasso Sea. Octavo. Original green metallic cloth, titles to spine in purple. With dust jacket. A very good copy, boards slightly bowed, contents clean, in like price-clipped dust jacket, spine panel toned, extremities a little rubbed and nicked, else bright.
Synopsis
Good Morning, Midnight, published in 1939, deals with a protagonist that has returned to Paris but cannot seem to escape the desperation in her life and chases the loneliness and depression with alcohol and sleeping pills, adrift in the city of love. The title takes its name from Good Morning -- Midnight, a poem by Emily Dickinson which is quoted throughout the story. -
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 155407
- Title
- Good Morning Midnight.
- Author
- RHYS, Jean
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Constable & Company Ltd,
- Date Published
- 1939
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
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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- Jacket
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- 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....
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