And Now Good-Bye

New York, NY: The Sun Dial Press. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1942. Hardcover. A Sundial press edition. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the bottom spine end of the book cover. The text pages are clean, but noticeably toned due to the acid content of the paper. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has one chip missing from the bottom spine end, and some light creasing and wear to the top spine end and all corners. "Hilton's first novel, Catherine Herself, was published in 1920 when he was still an undergraduate. The next 11 years were difficult for him, and it was not until 1931 that he had success with the novel And Now Goodbye. Following this, several of his books were international bestsellers and inspired successful film adaptations, notably Lost Horizon (1933) , which won a Hawthornden Prize; Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1934) ; and Random Harvest (1941). After this, he continued to write, but the works were not regarded as of the same quality as his better-known novels. Hilton's books are sometimes characterised as sentimental and idealistic celebrations of English virtues. This is true of Mr. Chips, but some of his novels had a darker side. Flaws in the English society of his time—particularly narrow-mindedness and class-consciousness—were frequently his targets." (from Wikipedia) .