William Plomer — At Home: Memoirs

London, Jonathan Cape, 1958. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this memoir from South African and British novelist William Plomer, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper with an inscription that reads: "for J. R. & V. R. from W. P. March 1958." The memoirs of William Charles Franklyn Plomer, a South African and British novelist, poet and literary editor. This work tells how he came back to Europe from travels in Africa and Asia, in the late 1920s. He traces his gradual readaptation to English life and his course as a writer through the hazards of peace in the inter-war period and the Second World War. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor fading to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light sunning to the spine and panel edges. The odd small closed tear to the extremities with minor loss at the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.