HAMILTON GIBBS, A. Undertow (signed)
HAMILTON GIBBS, Arthur. Undertow. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1932. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in red to the spine and front board, in the striking dust jacket designed by Frank McIntosh. This copy inscribed by the author to Anna McLaughlin at the front endpaper. The book near fine, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and very gently rolled. The topstain bright, the contents clean and fine but for a little browning to the front endpaper. The dust jacket price-clipped, with a couple of small chips to the spine tips and corners, a couple of discreet tape repairs to verso, plus brown tape reinforcement to top edge of verso.
One of the author’s more recognised works—though he and his works generally overshadowed by his brothers and their work—Sir Philip Gibbs and Cosmo Hamilton, novelists, playwrights and war correspondents alike. Our Gibbs joined as a trooper on the outbreak of the First World War, with a full service record until the Armistice. A Military Cross later, he boarded a ship to the US and made it his home. The novel itself follows a sympathetic Englishman, an undermaster in a second-rate boys’ school as his youth slips away from him. The jacket designer, Frank McIntosh, remains a somewhat underrated artist and designer of travel posters and various dust jackets aligned in their use of colour, line, and nods to the Art Deco.
HAMILTON GIBBS, Arthur. Undertow. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1932. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in red to the spine and front board, in the striking dust jacket designed by Frank McIntosh. This copy inscribed by the author to Anna McLaughlin at the front endpaper. The book near fine, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and very gently rolled. The topstain bright, the contents clean and fine but for a little browning to the front endpaper. The dust jacket price-clipped, with a couple of small chips to the spine tips and corners, a couple of discreet tape repairs to verso, plus brown tape reinforcement to top edge of verso.
One of the author’s more recognised works—though he and his works generally overshadowed by his brothers and their work—Sir Philip Gibbs and Cosmo Hamilton, novelists, playwrights and war correspondents alike. Our Gibbs joined as a trooper on the outbreak of the First World War, with a full service record until the Armistice. A Military Cross later, he boarded a ship to the US and made it his home. The novel itself follows a sympathetic Englishman, an undermaster in a second-rate boys’ school as his youth slips away from him. The jacket designer, Frank McIntosh, remains a somewhat underrated artist and designer of travel posters and various dust jackets aligned in their use of colour, line, and nods to the Art Deco.
HAMILTON GIBBS, Arthur. Undertow. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1932. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in red to the spine and front board, in the striking dust jacket designed by Frank McIntosh. This copy inscribed by the author to Anna McLaughlin at the front endpaper. The book near fine, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and very gently rolled. The topstain bright, the contents clean and fine but for a little browning to the front endpaper. The dust jacket price-clipped, with a couple of small chips to the spine tips and corners, a couple of discreet tape repairs to verso, plus brown tape reinforcement to top edge of verso.
One of the author’s more recognised works—though he and his works generally overshadowed by his brothers and their work—Sir Philip Gibbs and Cosmo Hamilton, novelists, playwrights and war correspondents alike. Our Gibbs joined as a trooper on the outbreak of the First World War, with a full service record until the Armistice. A Military Cross later, he boarded a ship to the US and made it his home. The novel itself follows a sympathetic Englishman, an undermaster in a second-rate boys’ school as his youth slips away from him. The jacket designer, Frank McIntosh, remains a somewhat underrated artist and designer of travel posters and various dust jackets aligned in their use of colour, line, and nods to the Art Deco.