Cape

    Radclyffe Hall, The Master of the House, first edition, 1932

    Modern Literature

    Hall (Radclyffe) The Master of the House

    £150



    London, Cape, 1932.

    First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.

    An early work by Well of Loneliness author Radclyffe Hall. The work's deeply religious theme was to prove so affecting to the author that she actually claimed to have suffered from stigmata whilst writing it.

    Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon, first UK edition, 1932

    American Literature

    Hemingway (Ernest) Death in the Afternoon

    £450



    London, Cape, 1932.

    First UK edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 15s.

    Hemingway's famous work on the art of bull-fighting, illustrated with over eighty illustrations from photographs and paintings.

    Simon Blumenfeld, Phineas Kahn, first edition, 1937

    Modern Literature

    Blumenfeld (Simon) Phineas Kahn.

    £150


    Portrait of an Immigrant
    London, Cape, 1937.

    First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.

    A marvellously written fictionalised account of the author's wife's family's story of migration from Russia to East London, by the author of Jew Boy.