Devon (John, pseud. Robert Payne) A Long Week-End
£275
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1937.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
A wonderful first edition of this novel, recounting the adventures, misadventures and epiphanies of a disparate collection of characters cloistered together in a large holiday house.
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