Henry [ pseudonym for Henry YORKE]. Blindness.

by GREEN

£4,750 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

GREEN, Henry [ pseudonym for Henry YORKE]. Blindness. London: J.M. Dent Sons Ltd. 1926. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, publisher’s monogram stamped centrally in blind to front board, single fillet borders in blind front and rear, upper edge blue, in the dustwrapper with wraparound illustration by Thomas Derrick (1885-1954); pp. [viii], [1], 254, [2], 6 (publisher’s catalogue); spine tips a touch rubbed and pushed, gilt muted but sharp, cloth clean and bright, moderate spotting to fore- and lower edges spreading a little to page margins of prelims and final leaves, dustwrapper with three patches of loss to edges (two to front, one to rear panel), a handful of closed tears and nicks, minor loss to spine tips, scattered spotting to verso; a very good copy in an exceptionally bright example of the dustwrapper. An unusually well-preserved copy of Henry Green’s precocious first novel, in a bright, unrestored example of the haunting Thomas Derrick illustrated wrapper. Henry Green, born Henry Yorke, published Blindness , his first novel, while still at Oxford, having begun writing it at Eton. It is dedicated to the author’s mother. “Caterpillar", the novel’s first part set in a very Eton-like school named Noat, consists of extracts from the diary of John Haye. A not unfamiliar figure in fiction of the period, Haye is an aesthete, liable to “f[all] in love with a transparent tortoiseshell cigarette case" or purchase, "in a moment of rash exuberance […] a cigarette

• Binding: Hardcover

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