God's Prisoner / The Story of a Crime a Punishment a Redemption (SIGNED FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL)

Oxenham, John (William Arthur Dunkerley)

Verlag: Hurst and Blackett, Limited, London, 1898

Beschreibung

Dated "24.ix.98," inscribed to Mr. Will Dean and signed "John Oxenham" in a small hand to top of blank FFE. This copy is intact but well used and "good only," still well bound but with cloth fraying to head, heel, & rear edge of spine, & some narrow gaps developing between the (sewn) signatures. Book smells slightly musty (it's from England), but not objectionably so. Original green cloth boards with titles to front and spine in red and black. The first of many novels from William Dunkerley (1852-1941) writing as John Oxenham (the pen name taken from Charles Kingsley's novel "Westward Ho!") His poetry includes "Bees in Amber: a little book of thoughtful verse" (1913), which became a best seller. Dunkerley served as deacon and teacher at the Ealing Congregational Church, west London, from the 1880s. He then moved to Worthing, Sussex, in 1922, where he became the town's mayor. He was a major contributor to Jerome K. Jerome's "The Idler" magazine. In this title, a murderer, "whose soul is God's Prisoner, but whose body is free," summarized The Bookman in 1899, "wanders . . . from end to end of the earth, seeking the peace that can never be found. But, after a time, he does find a measure of relief in doing good and in self-sacrifice -- where real happiness must perhaps always be found." With 21 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. 331 pp. This autographed copy reduced from $2,000. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 006387

Bibliografische Details

Titel: God's Prisoner / The Story of a Crime a ...

Verlag: Hurst and Blackett, Limited, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1898

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Signiert: Inscribed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition