Sorrow in Sunlight.

London, UK Brentano's Ltd., 1924. Hardcover First Edition UK (1924), unstated, but implied: no subsequent printings noted. This edition was limited to 1000 copies, of which this is Number 748. The text is a corrected version of the first edition - Brentano's Prancing Nigger. First Edition (1924), unstated (and indeed undated), but implied: no subsequent printings noted. This edition was limited to 1000 copies, of which this is Number 748. The text is a corrected version of the first edition - Brentano's Prancing Nigger. Very Good in Good DJ: The Book shows light use: three tiny white spots at the bottom edge of the front panel; light shelving wear - or is that foxing? - along the bottom edge of the front panel; the mildest wear to the other extremities; a former owner's elegantly stylized signature and date at the upper corner of the front free endpaper; faint tanning to the text pages due to aging; the binding remains square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and minor, unobtrusive cosmetic imperfections. While no longer 'fresh' the gilt titles at the front panel remain bright and clean (the gilt titles at the backstrip are very lightly rubbed. The corners are sharp. The DJ shows heavy rubbing to the panels and backstrip; faint but pervasive soiling to the white background fields of all; the titles at the backstrip are sunned to obscurity; small loss to rubbing and chipping at the the extremities and there are a couple of small scars at the rear panel which expose the book panel beneath; unclipped; mylar-protected. The decorated front panel is reasonably attractive and unmarred; the rest merely adequate. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.65 x 5.25 x 0.8 inches). 126 pages. Endpapers art by Christopher R.W. Nevinson (1889-1946) an English figure and landscape painter, etcher and lithographer, who was one of the most famous war artists of World War I. DJ front panel lettered in red and mauve and decorated with a reproduction in mauve of 'Prancing Niggers' by Robert Locher. Language: English. Weight: 11.5 ounces. Hardback with DJ. Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank (1886 – 1926) was an innovative British novelist. His eight short novels, partly inspired by the London aesthetes of the 1890s, especially Oscar Wilde, consist largely of dialogue, with references to religion, social-climbing, and sexuality. Sorrow in Sunlight (1924), renamed Prancing Nigger at the suggestion of the American publisher but first published in this British edition under the author's original title, was especially successful in America. It is set in a Caribbean republic (compounded of Cuba and Haiti). A socially ambitious black family move from their rural home to the capital, and the story is concerned with their attempts, which prove mainly abortive, to 'get into society'.His novels have been championed by many English novelists including E. M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Alan Hollinghurst and Simon Raven. The poet W. H. Auden praised him highly. Susan Sontag named his novels as part of "the canon of camp" in her 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp'