MANHOOD, Harold Alfred. Apples By Night. London: Jonathan Cape. 1932.
8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in yellow to spine, a wonderful Bauhaus inspired illustrated dust-jacket with printed price of 7s. 6d. to front flap, loosely inserted is a contemporary promotional ‘Now and Then’ bookmark advertising the Jonathon Cape periodical; pp. 314, [2]; a little soiling to jacket with a couple of spots (more prominent to reverse); spotting to edges of textblock slightly visible on outer margins of pages, light offsetting and spots to endpapers; very good.
First edition, first impression.
A companion volume of short stories to the author’s Nightseed (1928), which ‘may be likened to a barrel of West Country cider’ (blurb). Manhood pursued an alternative lifestyle, living in a repurposed railway carriage, where he grew his own food and brewed his own cider.
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