Loving

E-383: Viking Press. Very Good. 1949. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. The Viking Press, New York. 1949. 248 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the edges of the DJ. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards foxed and faded along the spine). Bookplate present to the reverse of the front board. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. DJ has shelf-wear present to the edges of the DJ. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards foxed and faded along the spine). Bookplate present to the reverse of the front board. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solidLoving describes life above and below stairs in an Irish country house during the Second World War. In the absence of their employers the Tennants, the servants enact their own battles and conflict amid rumours about the war in Europe. In an interview published in The Paris Review in 1958 Terry Southern asked Green about his inspiration for Loving. Green replied, "I got the idea of Loving from a manservant in the Fire Service during the war. He was serving with me in the ranks, and he told me he had once asked the elderly butler who was over him what the old boy most liked in the world. The reply was: 'Lying in bed on a summer morning, with the window open, listening to the church bells, eating buttered toast with c*nty fingers.' I saw the book in a flash. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages .