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Henry Green – Party Going – First Edition 1939
£125.00
A first edition, first printing of Party Going by Henry Green, published by The Hogarth Press, London in 1939. A very good copy without inscriptions, bound in publisher’s original blue cloth, gilt titling to the spine, chipping to the spine tips and the backstrip loose, with toning to the text block and spotting to prelims.
Party Going by Henry Green is a subtly tense, modernist novel set almost entirely in a railway hotel, where a group of fashionable guests waits for a train. Through minimal action and richly precise prose, Green captures the anxieties, social manners and psychological undercurrents of upper-middle-class life. The novel’s focus on dialogue, interiority and fleeting observations reflects themes of time, perception and the superficiality of social rituals, creating a compressed, atmospheric study of human behaviour.
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A first edition, first printing of Party Going by Henry Green, published by The Hogarth Press, London in 1939. A very good copy without inscriptions, bound in publisher’s original blue cloth, gilt titling to the spine, chipping to the spine tips and the backstrip loose, with toning to the text block and spotting to prelims.
Party Going by Henry Green is a subtly tense, modernist novel set almost entirely in a railway hotel, where a group of fashionable guests waits for a train. Through minimal action and richly precise prose, Green captures the anxieties, social manners and psychological undercurrents of upper-middle-class life. The novel’s focus on dialogue, interiority and fleeting observations reflects themes of time, perception and the superficiality of social rituals, creating a compressed, atmospheric study of human behaviour.
