The Vanishing Hero: Studies in Novelists of the Twenties
O'FAOLAIN, Sean
The Vanishing Hero: Studies in Novelists of the Twenties
O'FAOLAIN, Sean
Publisher: Little Brown & Co., Boston
Date published: 1957
Format: Hardcover
Seven essays on novelists including Huxley, Waugh, Greene, Faulkener, Hemingway, Bowen, Woolf and Joyce. 204pp. Bright copy with a sound binding. An old newspaper review of the book pasted to ffep. No wear to cloth. Dustjacket has a little rubbing and a little edge wear. Weight, 420g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
The Vanishing Hero: Studies in Novelists of the Twenties
Sean O'Faolain
The Vanishing Hero: Studies in Novelists of the Twenties
Sean O'Faolain
Publisher: Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown & Co.
Date published: 1957
Format: Hardcover
Small octavo. Authors considered are Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf & James Joyce. Condition: corners lightly bumped; soiling to binding; else good. Pages: xliii, 204.
The Vanishing Hero: Studies in Novelists of the Twenties
O'Faolain,Sean
The Vanishing Hero: Studies in Novelists of the Twenties
O'Faolain,Sean
Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode, London
Date published: 1956
Format: Hardcover
This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in a Very Good Dust-Jacket,with no chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.Not price clipped.The book has NO previous ownership names present.The book has a firm binding with no loose leaves.The d/j comes well protected in a brodart cover sleeve,8vo 222pp First Edition 1st Impression Size: 8vo - over 6 ¾" - 9¾" Tall
The Vanishing Hero: Studies in Novelists of the Twenties
O'Faolain, Sean
The Vanishing Hero: Studies in Novelists of the Twenties
O'Faolain, Sean
Publisher: Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
1957 1st ed. 204pp. beige & black cloth 8vo: Good in a generally Good dj in Brodart poly cover [shelf rubbing along bottom edges & corners; some age browning; else a clean, complete & tight copy; dj = p-c; some edge tears; else G] Essays on the work of Evelyn Waugh, Aldous Huxley, Graham Greene, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner by the prolific Irish writer O'Faolain (1900-91).
THE VANISHING HERO. Studies in Novelists of the Twenties.
O'FAOLAIN,, Sean.
THE VANISHING HERO. Studies in Novelists of the Twenties.
O'FAOLAIN,, Sean.
Publisher: London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956.
Date published: 1956
Format: Hardcover
222pp. 8vo. Original cloth in fine state, dustwrapper slightly less so. First edition. Novelists studied: Huxley, Waugh, Greene, Faulkner, Hemingway, Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce.
The Vanishing Hero. Studies in Novelists of the Twenties
O'Faolain, Sean
The Vanishing Hero. Studies in Novelists of the Twenties
O'Faolain, Sean
Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode, London
Date published: 1956
Format: Hardcover
Based on a series of lectures delivered at Princeton University in Spring, 1953. The chapters are on Waugh and Huxley ("I do not think, therefore I am"); Graham Greene ("I suffer, therefore I am"); William Faulkner ("More genius than talent"); Ernest Hemingway ("Man without memories"); Elizabeth Bowen ("Romance does not pay" - any irony here as she and O'Faolain were lovers?); Virginia Woolf and James Joyce ("Narcissa and Lucifer").
The Vanishing Hero: Studies in Novelists of the Twenties
O'Faolain, Sean
The Vanishing Hero: Studies in Novelists of the Twenties
O'Faolain, Sean
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly / Little-Brown
Date published: 1957
Format: Hardcover
Ex-lib (with allowance for lib indications condition is VG-/VG-; please see below). Hardcover in black and grey cloth, in white gold and orange-rd jacket with inset photos of authors. 1st edition. Lib indications are call label to lower spine of jacket, cellophane tape remnants off upper and lower edges of cloth and free endpapers; pocket to rear free endpaper. Strong stress creases to jacket from former paper-backed Brodart, jacket otherwise clean and very bright (dues to former Brodart). Cloth overall clean and sharp with toning along upper edges; strong binding; occasional pencilling erased from clean pages. jacket now in non-institutional Brodart. Scarce.
The Vanishing Hero: Studies in Novelists of the Twenties
O'Faolain, Sean
The Vanishing Hero: Studies in Novelists of the Twenties
O'Faolain, Sean
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly / Little-Brown
Date published: 1957
Format: Hardcover
Ex-lib (with allowance for lib indications condition is VG-/VG-; please see below). Hardcover in black and grey cloth, in white gold and orange-rd jacket with inset photos of authors. 1st edition. Lib indications are call label to lower spine of jacket, cellophane tape remnants off upper and lower edges of cloth and free endpapers; pocket to rear free endpaper. Strong stress creases to jacket from former paper-backed Brodart, jacket otherwise clean and very bright (dues to former Brodart). Cloth overall clean and sharp with toning along upper edges; strong binding; occasional pencilling erased from clean pages. jacket now in non-institutional Brodart. Scarce.
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