Pan In the Parlour; by Lindsay, Norman

Paperback. Very Good.

Hardback. New.

London: T. Werner Laurie. 36th thousand. Paperback. Early paperback edition. Norman Lindsay pictorial cover, dusty and chipped lower spine o/w good. 1 Shilling paperback. These paperback editions are difficult to obtain in any condition.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, 1933. First American Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good-. Norman Lindsay. 8vo. Pp. 346. Illustrated throughout with Norman Lindsay illustrations in black-and-white. Bound in bright red cloth with stylized art-deco lettering stamped on front cover and spine. In the dust jacket that shows a small chip, size of a dime, at top of front panel, and fading. First American edition of a later novel by the best-selling author-illustrator. The Norman Lindsay-illustrated dust jacket presents a boudoir scene gone-wrong, with two men scuffling in front of a reclined woman. Dust jacket now enclosed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

Illustrated by the author. London : T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1934. Fifth thousand. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth bound boards in illustrated dustjacket (price clipped, edges rubbed, small chips to dulled spine), pp. 346, illustrated with line drawings by Lindsay. Rare in the dustjacket, a very good copy. Second printing of the London edition, following the first New York edition of 1933. 'When he was a young man, Mr Lindsay wrote a novel of artistic Bohemian life in Melbourne entitled ""A Curate in Bohemia."" It was an amusing trifle. Just that, and nothing more. This new novel is neither better nor worse than its predecessor. The passing years have not dimmed Mr Lindsay's adolescent view of life, nor diminished the exuberant vitality of his imagination. The scene of ""Pan in the Parlour"" is set in one of the author's own small country towns. If life in them were half as lively as Mr Lindsay depicts it, the problem of the drift to the cities would be easily solved! Andrew Tarran has given… Read More

T. Werner Laurie, 1937-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-Library. Hardback. Well read copy with some spine wear but very useable.