BLAKE, George. The Shipbuilders
BLAKE, George. The Shipbuilders. London: Faber & Faber. 1935. 8vo. Second impression. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the striking dust jacket, signature illegible. A handsome copy of this second printing, published in the same year as the first—it was a surprise bestseller. The book very gently bumped at corners and tips, some edges, the binding tight and very slightly rolled. The contents clean and fine but for some light spots to endpapers. The dust jacket price-clipped, several chips, nicks, closed tears and creases, the front flap stained at joint. Still, a scarce example.
The Scottish author’s best known work and an important novel of twentieth century Scottish literature. The novel concerns the closure of an important shipyard that falls into bankruptcy, leaving our protagonists, both the owner’s son and a riveter at the yard economically and socially lost amid the 20s and 30s depression. Blake was born in Greenock, escaping poverty through journalism. He was involved in the Porpoise Press and became a director of Faber & Faber when it effectively took over the press. His early novels—this, the following title below, and others—tended to focus on the working class families of Glasgow and environs, and helped Blake to become a household name in the Scottish literary world and in England.
BLAKE, George. The Shipbuilders. London: Faber & Faber. 1935. 8vo. Second impression. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the striking dust jacket, signature illegible. A handsome copy of this second printing, published in the same year as the first—it was a surprise bestseller. The book very gently bumped at corners and tips, some edges, the binding tight and very slightly rolled. The contents clean and fine but for some light spots to endpapers. The dust jacket price-clipped, several chips, nicks, closed tears and creases, the front flap stained at joint. Still, a scarce example.
The Scottish author’s best known work and an important novel of twentieth century Scottish literature. The novel concerns the closure of an important shipyard that falls into bankruptcy, leaving our protagonists, both the owner’s son and a riveter at the yard economically and socially lost amid the 20s and 30s depression. Blake was born in Greenock, escaping poverty through journalism. He was involved in the Porpoise Press and became a director of Faber & Faber when it effectively took over the press. His early novels—this, the following title below, and others—tended to focus on the working class families of Glasgow and environs, and helped Blake to become a household name in the Scottish literary world and in England.
BLAKE, George. The Shipbuilders. London: Faber & Faber. 1935. 8vo. Second impression. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the striking dust jacket, signature illegible. A handsome copy of this second printing, published in the same year as the first—it was a surprise bestseller. The book very gently bumped at corners and tips, some edges, the binding tight and very slightly rolled. The contents clean and fine but for some light spots to endpapers. The dust jacket price-clipped, several chips, nicks, closed tears and creases, the front flap stained at joint. Still, a scarce example.
The Scottish author’s best known work and an important novel of twentieth century Scottish literature. The novel concerns the closure of an important shipyard that falls into bankruptcy, leaving our protagonists, both the owner’s son and a riveter at the yard economically and socially lost amid the 20s and 30s depression. Blake was born in Greenock, escaping poverty through journalism. He was involved in the Porpoise Press and became a director of Faber & Faber when it effectively took over the press. His early novels—this, the following title below, and others—tended to focus on the working class families of Glasgow and environs, and helped Blake to become a household name in the Scottish literary world and in England.