Author: Arnold Bennett; Newman Flower [ed]
Title: The Journals of Arnold Bennett
Description: London, Cassell and Company , 1932-33. First edition. Cloth. The first edition in three lovely volumes of the journals of Arnold Bennett. Complete in three volumes. The first edition in the original publisher's uniform cloth bindings. Containing the journals of Arnold Bennett, prolific English author of novels, short stories, plats, and daily journals. These volumes containing the journals from 1896 to 1928, edited by Newman Flower. The complete journals, which are said to amount to a million words, have never been published in full: according to Hugh Walpole, the editor (Newman Flower) "was so appalled by much of what he found in the journals that he published only brief extracts, and those the safest".Despite only publishing what the editor considered 'safest,' some defamatory remarks remained included and the publishers and printers had to pay an undisclosed sum to the plaintiff in one libel suit and £2,500 in another.Frontispiece to each volume. from the library of Alex B Davidson, with bookplate to each pastedown. In the original publisher's uniform full cloth bindings. Externally lovely with light bumping to head and tail of spine only. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .

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