Author: Cyril Connolly; David Pryce-Jones
Title: A Collection from Cyril Connolly
Description: New York; London, Charles Scribner's Sons; The Macmillan Company; Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Hamish Hamilton; Atheneum; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; Tic, 1936-1984. First edition. Cloth. New York; London: Charles Scribner's Sons; The Macmillan Company; Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Hamish Hamilton; Atheneum; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; Ticknor & Fields, 1936-1984. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 7.5" by 5.5"; 11" by 8.5". None. A collection of nine smart volumes from English critic and writer Cyril Connolly, with a memoir of his life. Nine volumes. A collection of works from Cyril Vernon Connolly, an English literary critic and writer. This set contains: The Rock Pool, 1936. First US edition. Connolly's only novel, set at the end of season in a small resort in the south of France we follow Naylor, who begins a study of the decadent inhabitants of the resort. The Condemned Playground, 1946. First US edition. A collection of thirty-seven essays found to be mildly political and amusingly witty. Enemies of Promise, 1948. Revised edition. A collection of essays in three parts: Predicament, The Charlock's Shade, and A Georgian Boyhood. Ideas and Places, 1953. Second impression. A collection of essays and articles originally released as his "Comments" from Horizon, arranged into a singular narrative. The Golden Horizon, 1953. First edition. Setting out to compress over six hundred issues of the magazine Horizon into one complete volume. Previous Convictions, 1963. First edition. A selection of writings from a decade of work, being important essays from Connolly written since the release of his work Ideas and Places. The Modern Movement, 1966. First US edition. A selection of descriptions of the one hundred books that best define the Modern Movement, beginning as a revolt against the Bourgeois in France and the Victorians in England. The Evening Colonnade, 1975. Uncorrected proof. A collection of essays and reviews consisting primarily of articles written when Connolly was chief book reviewer for The Sunday Times. Cyril Connolly, 1984. First US edition. A biographical study of the life of Cyril Connolly, written by David Eugene Henry Pryce-Jones, a British conservative author, historian and political commentator. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the extremities. The Evening Colonnade is bound in paper wraps and is externally sound with light loss and closed tears to the head and tail of the spine. With the odd small mark to the boards. All volumes other than The Rock Pool and The Evening Colonnade are bound with the original dust wrappers. The wrappers remain unclipped other than The Condemned Playground, Enemies of Promise, and Cyril Connolly which have been price-clipped. Dust wrappers are sound with light wear and chipping to the extremities. The odd small closed tear to the panel edges with sunning to the spine. Light loss to the extremities of Enemies of Promise. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small handling mark. Contemporary ink inscriptions to the front endpapers of the odd volume. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good/Very Good.

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