JOHN COWPER POWYS: Autobiography

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JOHN COWPER POWYS : Autobiography

John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1934

First edition (first printing) preceding the US edition by one month. 8vo. 652pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine, with the author's holograph signature gold-stamped to the upper boards and the publisher's vibrant red top edge stain. Portrait frontispiece. Title page printed in red and black. A touch of bruising to the backstrip ends, and the tips of two corners very gently bumped. The fore edge spotted and with some spotting to the title-page, to a dozen or so preliminary and concluding leaves, and to occasional margins. Miscellaneous circular indentation to the rear board. Former owner name and date (1942) inked to the front free endpaper. A good bright copy housed in a dust wrapper from the 1936 edition (the "First Cheap Edition"), which is somewhat rubbed, toned, chipped and marked with two small areas of internal reinforcement. Thomas A31.. Book. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fair

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