No Laughing Matter

by Angus Wilson

£35 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Secker & Warburg, 1967. Modern Literature FIRST EDITION. Octavo 22 x 15cm , pp.464. Publisher's tan cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the brown typographic dust-jacket designed by Marty Stein, priced at 42s. A strong tobacco scent, with some spotting to top edge. Jacket a little toned to spine, with some light wear to edges. Very good. A dynastic epic of our 'Silver Age', charting an English family from the Halcyon days of the 1900's through

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