Author: Joyce Cary
Title: Charley Is My Darling
Description: London, Michael Joseph, 1940 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of Joyce Carey's novel about a young evacuee. This first edition is scarce because the warehouse storing the work was itself a victim of the Blitz. The very scarce first edition, first impression of this novel.This is the author's most scarce work, as the majority of copies were destroyed in the bombing of the publisher's warehouse by the Luftwaffe at the beginning of WWII.The novel presents the story of a fifteen-year old evacuee from a London slum, Charley Brown, who quickly establishes himself as a gang leader in the West Country.With a Boots library sticker to the tail of the front board.With the former owner's inscription of Harry Lane, dated 2.2.1945, to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with small marks to back strip. Rubbing to joints. Tide marks to fore edges of boards. Library sticker, partially removed, to tail of front board. Head of front joint starting, with board firmly held. Loss of paper to head of front pastedown. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with only the odd spot. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .
Keywords: evacuee West Country Joyce Cary West Country None
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Title: Charley Is My Darling
Description: London, Michael Joseph, 1940 . First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of Joyce Carey's novel about a young evacuee. This first edition is scarce because the warehouse storing the work was itself a victim of the Blitz. The very scarce first edition, first impression of this novel.This is the author's most scarce work, as the majority of copies were destroyed in the bombing of the publisher's warehouse by the Luftwaffe at the beginning of WWII.The novel presents the story of a fifteen-year old evacuee from a London slum, Charley Brown, who quickly establishes himself as a gang leader in the West Country.With a Boots library sticker to the tail of the front board.With the former owner's inscription of Harry Lane, dated 2.2.1945, to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with small marks to back strip. Rubbing to joints. Tide marks to fore edges of boards. Library sticker, partially removed, to tail of front board. Head of front joint starting, with board firmly held. Loss of paper to head of front pastedown. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with only the odd spot. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .
Keywords: evacuee West Country Joyce Cary West Country None
Price: GBP 30.00 = appr. US$ 42.84 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 929F54
- Book number: 929F54
See more books from our catalog: Modern Fiction