Self Condemned Tapa dura - 1983

Manchester: Carcanet Press , 1983. Hard covers in tidy condition with a slightly faded dust jacket, some browning to the page edges . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1983. Hardcover in good condition. Afterword by Rowland Smith. Sunning and shelfwear to the jacket. The hardcover spine foot is bumped. Some marks on the page block. Interior very good with clean and sound pages. CM. Hardcover. Good. Used.

Gift able-Book is an excellent shape– British published –dark navy blue boards minor scuffs/wear on the bottom –spine tight book feels fairly unread –dust jacket is in wonderful shape it does have a Brodart cover wrapped around it no taping involved-I hate that when people ruin books taping supposed protective covers--Self Condemned, originally published in 1954, Story of Professor René Harding & his wife, Essie, as they find themselves in Momaco–fictionalized version of Toronto, after René's resignation as an academic in London–downsized into a employment second-rate University of Momaco, René &Essie suffer through a bleak and oppressive isolation in a dreary and alien city.Devastating, disturbing satire of life in wartime Canada– difficulty individuals face as they struggle to adapt to new surroundings while preserving their sense of wholeness,& the bond that develops between people during a shared experience of isolation.-Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was born on his father's yacht… Leer más