CYRIL CONNOLLY. — The Evening Colonnade. Essays. (INSCRIBED)
David Bruce & Watson Ltd., London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy inscribed by the author at the head of the front free endpaper and dated the year of publication. 8vo. 519pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. A trace of very light soiling to the top and fore edge, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped Cecil Beaton-designed dust wrapper. Over one hundred Connolly essays, the subjects including Oscar Wilde, T.S.Eliot, Richard Aldington, Marcel Proust, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Aldous Huxley, E.E.Cummings, Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Cocteau, Louis MacNeice, W.H.Auden, George Orwell, Robert Lowell, Basil Bunting, and the Spanish Civil War., Near Fine, Near Fine