S. P. B. MAIS. (Henry Williamson interest). — Orange Street. A novel.

Grant Richards Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 406pp. Orange cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board with a double blind border and an ornate black-stamped rule. Publisher's disclaimer slip tipped to the head of the first text leaf, as issued. Backstrip ends gently bruised and the free endpapers lightly spotted. A very good copy of the author's uncommon fourth novel. No dust wrapper. Mais' novel includes a thinly-veiled portrait of his old friend Henry Williamson, who appears as 'Brian Stucley', a poet living in North Devon and shares characteristics not dissimilar from some that Williamson's friends found so lamentable in himself. Nearly a decade later Williamson responded in kind, depicting Mais as 'Masterson Funicular Hengist Zeale' ("the only man in England who, having written nearly a hundred books, still has an adolescent enthusiasm for literature") in his 1935 novel 'Devon Holiday': an altogether less unkind portrait., Very Good, No Jacket