Hartley (L.P.) The Go-Between
£95
London, Hamish Hamilton and Book Society, 1953.
First edition, Book Society issue. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket.
Hartley’s famous novel about a young boy’s summer at a friend’s grand estate in Norfolk, where he becomes an unwitting messenger in a tragic love affair, encapsulated by the famous opening line: “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
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A very good copy in very good jacket.
Jacket artwork by Biro.
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