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Title

The Wild Goose Chase

A Novel

[SIGNED by the Author – First Edition –Half Leather Binding]

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Author

Rex Warner

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Year of Publication

1937

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Publisher

London: Boriswood

Description:

London: Boriswood, 1937, First Edition.

Inscribed by the author “Best Wishes to Peter O’Sullevan and deep gratitude (surely the first copy in leather!) from Rex Warner”.

An extremely good example of the author's first adult book; considered one of the first books to demonstrate the influence of Kafka on the English novel; a radical dystopian fantasy in which a tyrannical government is overthrown in a heroic revolution. Three brothers set off to find freedom & discover a strange country "where space and time follow a mad logic of their own”.

Rex Warner (1905 – 1986) was an English classicist, writer and translator. He is now probably best remembered for The Aerodrome (1941). Warner was described by V. S. Pritchett as "the only outstanding novelist of ideas whom the decade of ideas produced".

The book is dedicated to Peter O’Sullevan – thought to be Sir Peter O'Sullevan CBE (1918 – 2015) was an Irish-British horse racing commentator for the BBC, and a correspondent for the Press Association, Daily Express and Today. He was the BBC's leading horse racing commentator from 1947 to 1997, during which time he described some of the greatest moments in the history of the Grand National.

442pp.

Approximately 8 ¾ inches tall.

Condition Report

Externally

• Spine – good condition – gilt titles, 5 raised bands separating 6 compartments, ever so slightly stained to the bottom compartment.
• Joints – good condition – gently rubbed.
• Corners – good condition.
• Boards – good condition – half red leather and red cloth boards with blind tooled lines, slight staining to the lower corner front and rear closest to the spine.
• Page edges – good condition – top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges lightly tanned with some foxing.
• See above and photos.

Internally

• Hinges – good condition – intact.
• Paste downs – good condition – marbled with some minor foxing around the edges.
• End papers – good condition – marbled with some minor foxing around the edges, signed by the author on one of the free end papers.
• Title – good condition – very lightly tanned.
• Pages – good condition – lightly tanned with some foxing i.e. pages 96 throughout to 102.
• Binding – good condition – attractive.
• See photos.

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