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Hard Cover, 8vo, 414pp. Condition: Very Good, but with ghost of a paper clipped to title page. Dust jacket dust-soiled and stained to spine, with some wear to edges. Now protected in mylar. ** Collection of essays by the editor of "Horizon" literary magazine and one-time schoolfriend of George Orwell. Includes "The Grand Tour", "Impressions of Egypt", "On Being Won Over to Coleridge", "Baudelaire", "The Breakthrough in Modern Verse", and The Egghead Shrinkers". ** Inscribed to front free endpaper: "Elizabeth, with lots of love and gratitude from Cyril. Christmas 1963. All our people are service people. It's a wonder they could spare us." ** Provenance: By descent, from the library of Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd Baron Glenconner (1899-1983) and his second wife Lady Elizabeth (née Powell), who were friends with various writers including Cyril Connolly, Stephen Spender and Anthony Powell.
Ref: LITC 8429
$195.00