L.P. Hartley – The Go-Between – First Edition 1953 – SIGNED by the Author and with Wrap-Around Band
£2,750.00
A first edition, first printing published by Hamish Hamilton with The Book Society in 1953. A near fine copy with one neat name at the head of the endpaper and a full, rich red topstain. In the near fine complete dust wrapper, not price-clipped. Signed on the half-title without dedication.
Complete with the rare wrap-around band. A poignant coming-of-age novel set in Edwardian England, in which Leo Colston looks back on a summer at Brandham Hall and the consequences of his role in a doomed love affair. Signed copies of this title are exceptionally scarce.
The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley is a coming-of-age novel framed through memory. It follows Leo Colston, who as a boy visits a wealthy school friend’s country estate in 1900. There, he becomes an unwitting messenger between Marian, his friend’s sister, and her secret lover, Ted, a tenant farmer. Innocence collides with class boundaries and forbidden desire, leaving Leo scarred by betrayal and disillusionment. The novel explores memory, repression and the loss of childhood innocence.
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A first edition, first printing published by Hamish Hamilton with The Book Society in 1953. A near fine copy with one neat name at the head of the endpaper and a full, rich red topstain. In the near fine complete dust wrapper, not price-clipped. Signed on the half-title without dedication.
Complete with the rare wrap-around band. A poignant coming-of-age novel set in Edwardian England, in which Leo Colston looks back on a summer at Brandham Hall and the consequences of his role in a doomed love affair. Signed copies of this title are exceptionally scarce.
The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley is a coming-of-age novel framed through memory. It follows Leo Colston, who as a boy visits a wealthy school friend’s country estate in 1900. There, he becomes an unwitting messenger between Marian, his friend’s sister, and her secret lover, Ted, a tenant farmer. Innocence collides with class boundaries and forbidden desire, leaving Leo scarred by betrayal and disillusionment. The novel explores memory, repression and the loss of childhood innocence.
