Author: HENRY WILLIAMSON (published anonymously).
Title: The Gold Falcon; or The Haggard of Love. Being the Adventures of Manfred, Airman and Poet of the World War, and later, Husband and Father, in Search of Freedom and Personal Sunrise, in the City of New York; and of the Consummation of his Life.
Description: Faber, London, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 415pp. Blue cloth lettered and decorated in gold at the spine and with a blind-stamped vignette to the upper board. Tip of one corner knocked and the cloth at the backstrip and board margins a little tanned. Some spotting to the endpapers and occasional text leaf margins. Quite a bright copy, lacking the dust wrapper. A roman à clef of the thirties featuring thinly disguised versions of T.E.Lawrence ('G.B.Everest' - "my work was Snowdon to his Everest" - Williamson writing in 'Genius of Friendship'), C.R.W.Nevinson ('Cahnnerson'), D.H.Lawrence ('David Torrence'), Siegfried Sassoon ('Sherston Savage'), Aldous Huxley ('Adolf Stucley'), T.S.Eliot ('P.S.Etiol)', John Galsworthy ('Holsworthy'), H.G.Wells ('Springs') and J.B.Priestley ('P.B.Bradford' - Priestley took considerable umbrage to his portrayal, taking his revenge in a review: "a great oozing slab of self-pity, bearing the wet trade-mark of Henry Williamson"). Good/No Jacket.

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