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Poor. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp. 217. Original publisher's brown cloth lettered gilt on spine. ISBN 0333196554 Cream illustrated price-clipped dust jacket. Address label of A.P. Watt & Son pastedown on front free endpaper. Presentation copy: 'Malcolm-All the best! from Harry. ' Typed signed letter from Michael Horniman to Mrs Malcolm Bradbury loosely inserted written on headed notepaper from A. P. Watt & Son, 26/28 Bedford Row, London WC1R 4HL dated 24th May 1976 and consisting of about 60 words in which he says he thinks she and her husband would be interested to see William Cooper's new novel which he encloses 'with the thought you might be drawn to adapt it for the B.B.C. ' Typed signed letter from Harry Hoff (William Cooper) to Sir Malcolm Bradbury loosely inserted written on headed notepaper from 22, Kenilworth Court, Lower Richmond Road, London SW15 1EW dated 13 November 1981 and consisting of about 140 words in which he discusses the publication of one of his books 'keep your fingers crossed for me, that the news remains good! ' Handwritten signed letter from Harry Hoff to Sir Malcolm Bradbury loosely inserted written on headed notepaper as above dated 23. xii. 81 and consisting of about 150 words in which he says it looks as if after thirty years of being suppressed he will be able to bring out 'Scenes from Metropolitan Life'. He says that this is possible due to the recent death of the woman portrayed as 'Myrtle' in the book who had threatened to sue if it was published. The book was subsequently published by Macmillan in 1982. Harry Summerfield Hoff (1910 &endash; 2002) mainly wrote under the name of William Cooper. His first work using his pen name 'Scenes from Provincial Life' was described by John Braine as 'a seminal influence. ' Sir Malcolm Bradbury (1932 &endash; 2000) was a British novelist ('The History Man'), academic and writer on English and American literature. Angus Wilson and Malcolm Bradbury co-founded the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia in 1970. Michael Horniman was a literary agent at A. P. Watt & Son, the oldest literary agency in the world, since 2012 part of United Agents Partnership. Dust jacket a little darkened at edges, nicked and creased at head of spine, otherwise very good. Slight wear to dust jacket, otherwise very good.
