Description: ALDINGTON, Richard. Death of a Hero. London: Chatto and Windus. 1929. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the sumptuous dust jacket designed by Paul Nash. A very good book, the cloth generally clean, a trifle bumped around spine head, the topstain bright, the binding tight and square. Some light offsetting to endpapers, a few stains to the gutters but otherwise clean. The dust jacket unclipped (8s 6d net), some splits to joints, shallow nicks and chips to the corners and spine tips, the spine and other areas a little darkened, but a nice copy overall. Though Aldington began writing his magnum opus (he called it a ‘jazz novel’) almost immediately after the Armistice, it did not, like many other works serving as responses to the First World War, appear until the late 1920s. It sold well immediately and popularised Aldington as author, most especially in Russia for its outright condemnation of the late Victorian and Edwardian middle-class tendencies that, Aldington argued, led to the death of average men—like George Winterbourne, the novel’s ‘hero’.
Price: 275 GBP
Location: York
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Binding: Cloth
Non-Fiction Subject: Literature, Poetry & Criticism
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Author: Richard Aldington
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Original/Facsimile: Original
