Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper; cloth very good; jacket chipped around head of spine.
Jacket artwork by Biro.
£295
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 11s.
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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