Cyril Connolly — Horizon Stories

London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1943 . Cloth. Charming anthology of short stories from literary magazine Horizon, including the likes of Kafka, Urquhart and more. Second impression.In publisher's original cloth binding. With unclipped dust wrapper.Lovely anthology of short stories from the British post-war literary magazine Horizon, which ran between December 1939 and January 1950. Selected by the editor, Cyril Connolly, the collection is comprised of eighteen stories, including Franz Kafka's "In the Penal Colony", Fred Urquhart's "Man About the House" and J. Maclaren-Ross' "A Bit of a Smash in Madras", among others. Many of the printed stories are the first by the author to be published in England. In publisher's original cloth binding. With unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart with slight bumping and rubbing and light marking. Dust wrapper suffers marginally more from shelf wear and marking, featuring small chips to the head, tail and along the spine, as well as to spine tips. Light creasing to the front free endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Generally bright and clean with the odd spot, heavier to the first and last few pages. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good/Good.