THE CORRIDOR: A Novel.

LONDON.WILLIAM KIMBER,1980.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj,though front inner flap has a diagonal crease to both top+bottom corners.Colour,pictorial artwork illustrated upper wrap by Pat Doyle; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creases to edges - no nicks or tears - but minisculely rubbed corners with reciprocal loss.Top+ fore-edges lightly aged but unblemished; contents bright, tight and near pristine.Unblemished,plain black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-174pp includes half-title+title pages,and 11 chapters. An uncommon and scarce title.This edition is now out-of-print as the publisher ceased trading in the mid 1980's.
William Kimber himself,worked for Hutchinson for about 17 years before founding "William Kimber & Co" in 1950.It specialized in aviation, war memoirs,autobiographies and motor-racing titles until 1973 when "Haunted Cornwall" took off and the Ghost Stories became another specialty. The company was bought by Thorsons in 1988,and therefore ceased publishing under that name.
William Kimber was purchased by Thorsons in 1988 and therefore ceased publishing under that name.Thorsons was purchased by William Collins in 1989.William Collins became wholly owned by News Corporation in 1990,and was then incorporated into HarperCollins Publishers.The name of William Kimber has not been used for publishing since that,making all previously published titles by them, out-of-print,under that name.
A crucial event in the story of this novel is a collision,a car crash,and this symbolizes the subtle predicament of the central character whose life from boyhood to early manhood is here unfolded with brilliant incisiveness and intuitive understanding.Rodney Croft embarks on his ambition to become a successful actor.
Across his relationship with a girl falls the shadow of a producer who could pave the way to his ambition.The collision course indicated by the conflicting drives within Rodney's character is developed by Robin Maugham into a situation of dramatic intensity which suddenly forces Rodney to confront the questions that are spelt out in life and death.
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