Author: David Garnett
Title: The Grasshoppers Come
Description: London, Chatto and Windus , 1931. First edition. Cloth. An attractive first edition of this short novel by David Garnett The first edition of this novel by David Garnett, following the experiences of two men and a woman trying to complete a record-breaking air trip, and all the incident that follows. David Garnett was a prominent member in the Bloomsbury Group, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1922 with his novel Lady into Fox. Illustrated by R A Garnett. From the library at Julian Park, Hertfordshire, belonging to Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. Audrey was the youngest daughter of an Anglo-American lumber and steel millionaire, sister to Edward James, a key figure in the Surrealist movement, and the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII. She was an English socialite known for her beauty and for charming various wealthy men, she was included in The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton. A patron of the arts, she assisted Viscount Carlow financially in the publication of limited editions of numerous works by leading literary figures such as T E Lawrence, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, and others. A hedonistic pursuer, she was recognised as one of the 'Bright Young Things&apos. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally smart with minor shelf wear and a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities, with some sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. With a minor faint spotting to the fore edge, affecting only the odd leaf slightly. Otherwise, the pages are generally very clean and bright throughout. Illustrated by R A Garnett. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: R. A. Garnett. Very Good Indeed .
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Title: The Grasshoppers Come
Description: London, Chatto and Windus , 1931. First edition. Cloth. An attractive first edition of this short novel by David Garnett The first edition of this novel by David Garnett, following the experiences of two men and a woman trying to complete a record-breaking air trip, and all the incident that follows. David Garnett was a prominent member in the Bloomsbury Group, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1922 with his novel Lady into Fox. Illustrated by R A Garnett. From the library at Julian Park, Hertfordshire, belonging to Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. Audrey was the youngest daughter of an Anglo-American lumber and steel millionaire, sister to Edward James, a key figure in the Surrealist movement, and the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII. She was an English socialite known for her beauty and for charming various wealthy men, she was included in The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton. A patron of the arts, she assisted Viscount Carlow financially in the publication of limited editions of numerous works by leading literary figures such as T E Lawrence, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, and others. A hedonistic pursuer, she was recognised as one of the 'Bright Young Things&apos. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally smart with minor shelf wear and a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities, with some sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. With a minor faint spotting to the fore edge, affecting only the odd leaf slightly. Otherwise, the pages are generally very clean and bright throughout. Illustrated by R A Garnett. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: R. A. Garnett. Very Good Indeed .
Keywords: first editions grasshoppers come david garnett grasshoppers come R. A. Garnett
Price: GBP 30.00 = appr. US$ 42.84 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 795A27
- Book number: 795A27
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