Boyle (Kay) My Next Bride
£125
London, Faber, 1935.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
A very good first UK edition of this early novel by one of the ‘Lost Generation’ writers, a semi-autobiographical künstlerroman set around an artists’ commune on the outskirts Paris. Boyle was a prolific writer and poet, and a successful journalist until falling prey to the McCarthy witch hunts.
In stock
Ink name to front endpaper, overall an excellent example of the book; jacket with very minor rubbing and chipping to extremities, small redaction to printed price on lower panel, but overall a very good example.
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