DEATH OF A HERO.
A novel. In two volumes. Pp xii+194+214(last colophon); post 4to; beige stiff paper wrappers printed in black, the backstrips browned, Volume I slightly tape marked around the backstrip which is also starting to split at head, Volume II with 2 short splits to lower wrapper near backstrip extremities; all edges uncut; within marbled papered slipcase, edges lightly worn; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, earlier bookplate of Harry Austin Brentnall on upper free endpapers, a couple of faint damp stains and some scattered light foxing; Henri Babou and Jack Kahane, Paris, 1930. Authorized Unexpurgated Edition, limited to 300 numbered copies. Kershaw 56. *Lacking the glassine wrappers. Aldington's semi-autobiographical first novel, originally published in 1929 by Chatto & Windus in the U.K. and Covici Friede in the USA. Both, particularly the U.K. edition, were sanitized due to obscenity laws at the time. Henri Babou and Jack Kahane co- published in Paris several books considered unprintable in England and America. Item #181709
Price: $750.00