LIVING
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1929. First American Edition. Green's second novel, centered around "a family business...an engineering works in Birmingham which a young man takes over from his dying father. But, despite the delicious satire on his position and love affairs, the book is really about skilled craftsmen, foremen and works managers in a phase of industrial depression" (Connolly, The Modern Movement 59). The book is notable for its deliberate lack of conjunctives, in order to reflect a proper Birmingham accent. A cornerstone work of modernist literature, uncommon in dustjacket. Item #4342
Bound from British sheets. Octavo (19.5cm); light gray cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [viii],269,[3]pp. Faint, scattered foxing to lower and right edge of textblock, else Near Fine. In the dustjacket designed by Kenneth Romney Towndrow; light wear to spine ends and extremities, some tiny, scattered soil spots to spine panel and rear flap fold, and a handful of tape-mended tears on verso; still a bright, Very Good+ example.
Price: $2,800.00