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Sleeveless Errand: A Novel
by JAMES, Norah C
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paris: Henry Babou and Jack Kahane, 1929. First Paris Edition (in English). Large 8vo, pp. [218], [2]. Quarter cream linen lettered in black over patterned paper boards. Corners bruised and worn, edgewear, esp. to bottom edges. Boards toned. Occasional foxing, faint bookseller's stamp to rear pastedown, a bit shaken. Else, clean. A good+ copy. With a scathing Preface by Edward Garnett, directed at British censorship laws. Like Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness, Sleeveless Errand fell foul of the Obscene Publications Act 1857. Following the seizure and destruction of the London edition, primarily for its 'Bloody Hells,' Jack Kahane acted quickly to reissue the book in Paris; Kahane would set up the Obelisk Press. Fortunately, Norah James was not deterred by the 'moral righteousness and official Pecksniffery' of the British Home Office (in Garnett's words) and went on to author over 60 books. Known as Jimmy to her friends, in later life Jones lived with her partner Barbara Beauchamp.
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1343
- Title
- Sleeveless Errand: A Novel
- Author
- JAMES, Norah C
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Henry Babou and Jack Kahane
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1929
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modernist Firsts;
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Quair Books
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Leeds, West Yorkshire
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- E.P.
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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...