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Green, Henry (pseudonym of Henry Yorke) : Loving

The Viking Press, New York, 1949

Original publisher's yellow cloth binding with illustrated dust wrapper in mylar. The illustration on the dust wrapper's front panel features colors of brown, pink, and green and shows an outdoor scene through a doorway in which a couple is seated on a bench with coupled birds nearby. 5 5/8" x 8 1/4." 248 pages, complete. Pages and covers of the book are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Dust wrapper is clean and intact except for slight chipping at the top of the spine, not affecting lettering. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped. No remainder marks. A Fine book in a Very Good dust wrapper. The highly acclaimed modernist novel by Henry Green (1905-1973; pen name of Henry Yorke). Excerpt from the front flap of the dust wrapper: "Loving has been described as a society novel in reverse, for it concerns the lives and loves of the servants' hall in a rich woman's castle in Ireland at the beginning of the war [World War II]. Elizabeth Bowen wrote of it in The Tatler, '... Mr. Green penetrates through the mask of class and type to the individual soul inside each of his men and women. This novel has the straight, humanistic touch lost, I have sometimes thought, to most English fiction since the eighteenth century. Also, he is rare in his power not only of feeling, but of conveying beauty. The doves, the emerald days seen through the Gothic Kinalty windows, the two housemaids waltzing in the empty ballroom, the rain, the evenings, the picnic on the sands--these are poetry.'". Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

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