"[...]on the black lamp shades. I see you standing there with a half-empty glass of Courvoisier in your hand, sipping, and watching, and smiling.... And women, perhaps-nay! a princess for very certain, it is said-running wild over the immobility of your face, immobile even through those first perfervid years. But it did not always happen that I found him working at his table by the window. Sometimes he would be pacing restlessly up and down the room, and round the cardtable in the centre (which was also a lunch, tea, and ...
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"[...]on the black lamp shades. I see you standing there with a half-empty glass of Courvoisier in your hand, sipping, and watching, and smiling.... And women, perhaps-nay! a princess for very certain, it is said-running wild over the immobility of your face, immobile even through those first perfervid years. But it did not always happen that I found him working at his table by the window. Sometimes he would be pacing restlessly up and down the room, and round the cardtable in the centre (which was also a lunch, tea, and dinner table). "I have never before been four years in one place," he said. "I have never been six months in one place." He related it as a possibly interesting fact, not as a cavil against circumstances. It shows what little I knew of, or about, him, that I had never before heard of his travels. "But how have you ever done any work if you never stayed in one place, never settled down?" "Settled down!" He stopped in his walk and fixed on me with a disapproving eye. "That's a nasty bad word, Dikran. The being-at-home feeling is a sedative to all art and progress. In the end it kills imagination. It is a soporific, a-what you call it?-a dope. There's a feeling of[...]."
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Sevier, Michel. Fair in Poor jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Jacket is rubbed, very chipped, closed tears. Boards mottled, rubbed edges. Inside hinges very weak. minor shelfwear. Pages are lightly tanning, text has no markings.
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178 pages. Arlen (1895-1956) an Armenian-born British essayist, short story writer, novelist, play and screenwriter. His first book, a semi-autobiographical series of magazine essays assembled and published in 1920. First edition (first printing). Advance copy printed in 1919. A very good copy in gray cloth with illustration and lettering in black on front cover and spine. Mild edge and corner wear. Pages beginning to brown. No dust jacket.
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Very Good. First edition, first issue with the lettering on the boards in white. 12mo. Decorated papercovered boards. Small book label of noted book collector La Fayette Butler, as well as another bookplate and tiny owner's signature, a bit of rubbing at the extremities, a nice, very good copy. Author's first book.
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First edition, first issue with the lettering on the boards in white. 12mo. Decorated papercovered boards. Small book label of noted book collector La Fayette Butler, a bit of rubbing at the foot, overall near fine. Author's first book.
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Near Fine in Very Good+ jacket. 8vo. Black boards, stamped in white with pictorial vignette. Illustrations by Michel Sevier. First edition, first issue (copies dated 1919 are actually the later issue). An exceptionally nice copy of the author's fragile first book with original DJ present (tear to front flap). Inscribed to the publisher Nelson Doubleday to “Dear Nelson. I look back on this book, my fusi-born with the same fatuous pride and idiotic self-satisfaction with which I look on my son. And I inscribe this to you with deep affection" Doubleday purchased a controlling stake in the English publishing house, Heinemann, a year later. A fine presentation. Housed in a handsome half morocco boxed slipcase.
