(JOYCE, James - Maurice NADEAU). HANLEY, James
Le Tourbillon. Roman. Drift traduit de l'Anglais par Jean Périer.
Paris, Éditions Corrêa, 1952. Original wrappers. 272 p. Uncut. One of 20 numbered copies on Alfa Mousse paper. First edition/ Édition originale. Short split at tail of front hinge. Lower cover has two edge tears. Deluxe edition of the French translation of Drift (1930), Hanley's first novel, set among the Irish in Liverpool. The protagonist is a working boy who reads Zola and Joyce - like James Hanley himself had been! One of only twenty copies on quality paper, in Corrêa's collection 'Le Chemin de la Vie' directed by Maurice Nadeau, who also included works by Himes, Lowry and Miller. With a 4-page preface by Nadeau (who died in 2013, 102 years old).
Boeknummer: 257148
€ 60.00