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 in gold at the spine and with a small gilt-stamped decoration, repeated in blind to the upper board. Edges and endpapers spotted and with a little further spotting to a dozen preliminary and concluding leaves, and to occasional leaves throughout. A good copy in spotted, toned, torn and nicked price-clipped dust wrapper, split into two parts at the rear panel-spine panel join and, an inch of loss from the head of the front panel and several smaller areas of loss. A celebrated roman à clef of the thirties, with the added frisson of anonymity. 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, D.H.Lawrence, Siegfried Sassoon, Aldous Huxley, T.S.Eliot, John Galsworthy, H.G.Wells, Thomas Washington Metcalfe and J.B.Priestley. 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/Poor.

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