Memoirs of a Public Baby

O'Connor, Philip (Introduction by Stephen Spender)

Verlag: London Faber and Faber 1958, 1958

Beschreibung

Second impression. Inscribed by the author to the front endpaper: "For Rosemary Goad with best wishes from Philip O'Connor. Cancale, 1967.". The recipient, Goad, had a long literary career at Faber & Faber, eventually becoming a director in 1970. The book is firmly bound in light grey cloth lettered in red to the spine, the extremities are slightly bumped and rubbed. The text block is slightly foxed, dusty and age toned. The dust jacket is the original and not price clipped, it is slightly rubbed and marked, the spine is sunned and there are a few small chips and short closed tears to the edges, some repaired to the reverse with thin paper archival tape. A nice association copy of O'Connor's celebrated first volume of autobiography, telling of his chaotic early life, including abandonment as a child in France, adoption and the challenges of carving out a niche as both a surrealistic poet and one of the dangerously dissolute and precarious raconteurs of Fitzrovia. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 5982

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Memoirs of a Public Baby

Verlag: London Faber and Faber 1958

Erscheinungsdatum: 1958

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers