J. B. Priestley — The English Novel

London, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1935. Cloth. A smart revised edition of this illustrated collection of literary criticism from English writer John Boynton Priestley. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seventeen portrait plates of great novelists. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive exploration of the English novel, from the beginnings of its form to the most recent modern fiction. With the author's estimates of his contemporaries, the form, and a vast index. Written by John Boynton Priestley, an English novelist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and social commentator. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light fading to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with light wear to the extremities and light marks to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning to the endpapers. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.