GOMERY, Percy. End of the Circle
GOMERY, Percy. End of the Circle. Toronto: Macmillan. 1929. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s cream cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the attractive period dust jacket. A very good copy, the cloth clean and a little pushed at spine tips. The binding tight and square, the textblock a touch marked with some light offsetting and marks to endpapers, else clean. The dust jacket price-clipped with some closed tears to edges, tiny chips and nicks to corners, some light marks.
One of a small handful of books written by the Canadian author, and this one curiously similar, at least in plot, to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’; a dying man projects his soul into a newborn, the newborn compelled to live his life from old age to childhood, winning the love of the woman previously unattainable in the process. Fitzgerald’s short story was published in Collier’s seven years prior, and his moderate fame might be a signal that Gomery had no reference to the work. Regardless, an interesting novel.
GOMERY, Percy. End of the Circle. Toronto: Macmillan. 1929. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s cream cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the attractive period dust jacket. A very good copy, the cloth clean and a little pushed at spine tips. The binding tight and square, the textblock a touch marked with some light offsetting and marks to endpapers, else clean. The dust jacket price-clipped with some closed tears to edges, tiny chips and nicks to corners, some light marks.
One of a small handful of books written by the Canadian author, and this one curiously similar, at least in plot, to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’; a dying man projects his soul into a newborn, the newborn compelled to live his life from old age to childhood, winning the love of the woman previously unattainable in the process. Fitzgerald’s short story was published in Collier’s seven years prior, and his moderate fame might be a signal that Gomery had no reference to the work. Regardless, an interesting novel.
GOMERY, Percy. End of the Circle. Toronto: Macmillan. 1929. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s cream cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the attractive period dust jacket. A very good copy, the cloth clean and a little pushed at spine tips. The binding tight and square, the textblock a touch marked with some light offsetting and marks to endpapers, else clean. The dust jacket price-clipped with some closed tears to edges, tiny chips and nicks to corners, some light marks.
One of a small handful of books written by the Canadian author, and this one curiously similar, at least in plot, to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’; a dying man projects his soul into a newborn, the newborn compelled to live his life from old age to childhood, winning the love of the woman previously unattainable in the process. Fitzgerald’s short story was published in Collier’s seven years prior, and his moderate fame might be a signal that Gomery had no reference to the work. Regardless, an interesting novel.