YOUNG, Francis Brett. Jim Redlake (signed)
YOUNG, Francis Brett. Jim Redlake. London: Heinemann. 1930. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper board, in the excellent dust jacket, uncredited. This copy signed not once, not twice, but three times by Young--inscribed to E. L. Spratley at front endpaper and dated 1934, flat signed to title page, and further signed upside down to rear endpaper, to the same recipient but in the year of publication. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, board edges a little rubbed at corners and spine tips, but the binding sound, tight and square. The contents fine but for light offsetting to endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped (10/6 net) with a little loss around spine head, head and tail gently bumped and rubbed, but a splendid example.
A smart copy of the Midland's best known author's own favourite novel. Set in the Black Country, Bloomsbury, and German East Africa, Young recycled censored components of his earlier work, Marching on Tanga (1917) --an autobiographical work envisioned from his time as a medical officer -- and covertly slid them into novel form instead, and the result is this impressive, perhaps overwritten, 787-page behemoth.
YOUNG, Francis Brett. Jim Redlake. London: Heinemann. 1930. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper board, in the excellent dust jacket, uncredited. This copy signed not once, not twice, but three times by Young--inscribed to E. L. Spratley at front endpaper and dated 1934, flat signed to title page, and further signed upside down to rear endpaper, to the same recipient but in the year of publication. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, board edges a little rubbed at corners and spine tips, but the binding sound, tight and square. The contents fine but for light offsetting to endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped (10/6 net) with a little loss around spine head, head and tail gently bumped and rubbed, but a splendid example.
A smart copy of the Midland's best known author's own favourite novel. Set in the Black Country, Bloomsbury, and German East Africa, Young recycled censored components of his earlier work, Marching on Tanga (1917) --an autobiographical work envisioned from his time as a medical officer -- and covertly slid them into novel form instead, and the result is this impressive, perhaps overwritten, 787-page behemoth.
YOUNG, Francis Brett. Jim Redlake. London: Heinemann. 1930. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper board, in the excellent dust jacket, uncredited. This copy signed not once, not twice, but three times by Young--inscribed to E. L. Spratley at front endpaper and dated 1934, flat signed to title page, and further signed upside down to rear endpaper, to the same recipient but in the year of publication. A near fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, board edges a little rubbed at corners and spine tips, but the binding sound, tight and square. The contents fine but for light offsetting to endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped (10/6 net) with a little loss around spine head, head and tail gently bumped and rubbed, but a splendid example.
A smart copy of the Midland's best known author's own favourite novel. Set in the Black Country, Bloomsbury, and German East Africa, Young recycled censored components of his earlier work, Marching on Tanga (1917) --an autobiographical work envisioned from his time as a medical officer -- and covertly slid them into novel form instead, and the result is this impressive, perhaps overwritten, 787-page behemoth.