CICELLIS, Kay. No Name in the Street
CICELLIS, Kay. No Name in the Street. London: Harvill Press. 1952. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's green cloth lettered in pale green to spine, in the remarkable dust jacket, uncredited. A very good copy, the cloth a trifle stained to spine foot, with some stains to the textblock top edge. The binding tight and square, and the contents fine but for light marks to corners of endpapers, and a central page heavily toned from a newspaper clipping--which remains. The dust jacket not clipped (12s 6d net) with some shallow chips and closed tears along most edges, the spine tips with a little loss, and the spine and rear panels darkened with a few light stains. Nevertheless uncommon.
The French-born Greek author's first novel after her successful short story collection, The Easy Way. That first collection was admired by Vita Sackville-West, who wrote the foreword, suggesting Cicellis write a full-length novel--and here it is: a novel without happiness, about "the purposelessness of a generation that has experienced defeat, occupation and the ordeals of the resistance".
CICELLIS, Kay. No Name in the Street. London: Harvill Press. 1952. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's green cloth lettered in pale green to spine, in the remarkable dust jacket, uncredited. A very good copy, the cloth a trifle stained to spine foot, with some stains to the textblock top edge. The binding tight and square, and the contents fine but for light marks to corners of endpapers, and a central page heavily toned from a newspaper clipping--which remains. The dust jacket not clipped (12s 6d net) with some shallow chips and closed tears along most edges, the spine tips with a little loss, and the spine and rear panels darkened with a few light stains. Nevertheless uncommon.
The French-born Greek author's first novel after her successful short story collection, The Easy Way. That first collection was admired by Vita Sackville-West, who wrote the foreword, suggesting Cicellis write a full-length novel--and here it is: a novel without happiness, about "the purposelessness of a generation that has experienced defeat, occupation and the ordeals of the resistance".
CICELLIS, Kay. No Name in the Street. London: Harvill Press. 1952. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's green cloth lettered in pale green to spine, in the remarkable dust jacket, uncredited. A very good copy, the cloth a trifle stained to spine foot, with some stains to the textblock top edge. The binding tight and square, and the contents fine but for light marks to corners of endpapers, and a central page heavily toned from a newspaper clipping--which remains. The dust jacket not clipped (12s 6d net) with some shallow chips and closed tears along most edges, the spine tips with a little loss, and the spine and rear panels darkened with a few light stains. Nevertheless uncommon.
The French-born Greek author's first novel after her successful short story collection, The Easy Way. That first collection was admired by Vita Sackville-West, who wrote the foreword, suggesting Cicellis write a full-length novel--and here it is: a novel without happiness, about "the purposelessness of a generation that has experienced defeat, occupation and the ordeals of the resistance".