The Best of Hugh Kingsmill: Selections from His Writings ~ Michael Holroyd
London: Victor Gollancz‚ 1970‚ Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
*** First Edition ***

CONDITION NOTES

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Matt paper dust wrapper has insignificant edgewear and is a touch faded with heavier toning to the spine and a short‚ closed‚ tear to the foot of the upper panel. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. The contents complete‚ clean and tight.

ABOUT THIS BOOK

From the cover: “Behind the big names of twentieth century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of Change has blown. My own vote goes to Hugh Kingsmill as leader of this opposition.

So Michael Holroyd‚ the biographer of Lytton Strachey and author of a biography of Kingsmill‚ begins his introduction to this selection from the work of one of the century’s outstanding critics‚ novelists and biographers. The purpose of this book is to present a wide sample of his writing to readers to whom he has hitherto been little more than a name‚ and to acquaint them with some of those excellencies in his work that ‘should delight the reasonable reader’.

Kingsmill (born 1889‚ died 1949) published more than thirty books. Extracts from four of his biographies (Samuel Johnson‚ The Sentimental Journey (Dickens)‚ D. H. Lawrence and Frank Harris) are included here. From his volumes of essays and literary criticism‚ pieces on W. H. Auden‚ Belloc‚ Chester…

  • 8¾” x 5¾”
  • pp. 399
  • Bibliography.
  • ISBN: 0-5750-0476-2
  • Dustwrapper over Blue boards‚ with Gilt titling to the Spine.
  • Packed Weight: 1.40 Kg.



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