No Humour In My Love

No signatures. This copy comes with two dust-jackets. One dust-jacket is price-clipped but otherwise very good. The other dust-jacket is not price-clipped, but has some chips to the margins and fading to the spine. Dust-jackets protected in archival mylar cover. ; 1946 reprint of 1944 edition, of a title first published in 1935 (London: Cobden-Sanderson). 182, [2 (advertisements] pages. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 184 x 121mm. New Zealand author. A collection of 3 novels: No Humour In My Love (originally published in 1927 as "Solemn Boy"; Judith Silver (originally published 1929); The Flame of Ethirdova (originally published 1930). "When he was young, Hector Bolitho wrote three novels which bean his career as a writer in this country. Then he turned to biography. Recently he read his novels again and, in his own words, he 'thought them very poor.' So he wrote them again in the light of what he has learned since of life and of the art of writing." - from dust-jacket blurb. "Hector Bolitho (1898-1974), was one of the most prolific and certainly the most financially successful of New Zealand authors of his generation." - Vincent O'Sullivan, in Robinson & Wattie (1998) "The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature".

Product Info

Publisher: Herbert Jenkins

Year: [1946]

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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