Rotting Hill
London: Methuen and Co., 1951. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. xii, 307. Bound in blue cloth with lettering stamped in gilt. In the price-clipped dust jacket that shows tape shadows at head and tail of spine, and lower rear corner, otherwise bright. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #5234
First edition of Lewis' collection of short stories set amid socialism in post-WWII Britain. Hemingway, reminiscing about 1920s Paris (A Moveable Feast), recollects Lewis during his pugilistic interactions with Pound: "I watched Lewis carefully without seeming to look at him, as you do when you are boxing, and I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man." Charming dust jacket design. MORROW and LAFOURCADE, A36. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable archival sleeve.
Price: $75.00