'HAPPY New Year!' Fred Delaney said, standing in the doorway and smiling at the in-no- way beautiful person of Mr. Munden. He had switched on the electric light, and the illumination revealed Patrick Munden lying half in, half out of the bedclothes. No, he was not beautiful, his thin pointed face unshaven, his black hair spread about the pillow, his lean body protected from the cold by pyjamas, grey with blood-red stripes, by no means so fresh as they should be. The light pressed on Munden's eyes and he opened them, stared ...
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'HAPPY New Year!' Fred Delaney said, standing in the doorway and smiling at the in-no- way beautiful person of Mr. Munden. He had switched on the electric light, and the illumination revealed Patrick Munden lying half in, half out of the bedclothes. No, he was not beautiful, his thin pointed face unshaven, his black hair spread about the pillow, his lean body protected from the cold by pyjamas, grey with blood-red stripes, by no means so fresh as they should be. The light pressed on Munden's eyes and he opened them, stared wildly about him, then, cursing, buried his face in the pillow. 'Happy New Year!' Delaney said again. 'What the hell--' 'Eight-thirty. You asked me as a special favour to call you.' Munden raised his head and stared at Delaney. It was not a bad-looking face. The blue eyes were good, the forehead broad and clear, the chin finely pointed. He looked clever and peevish and hungry. He stretched himself, his open pyjama jacket showing a chest skeletonic and hairy. He rubbed his eyes with a hairy wrist.
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Book club edn. 8vo. Original red lettered cream cloth, top edge red (VG), dustwrapper (chipped at edges-in protective cover, price clipped). Pp. x + 464 + catalogue (no inscriptions).
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Very Good. No Jacket. Signed By Author. 8vo. Signed, limited edition one of 180 large paper copies printed in July 1938. Blue boards with buff spine and cream title label, clean and tidy, very feint browning to title box, corners and spine ends very lightly bumped, uncut closed edges, author's signature opposite half title, pages clean and bright, unmarked, some pages unopened at head, text clear to read, additional title label at rear of book, binding sound.
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