Charles Morgan — The Fountain
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this best-selling novel from British writer Charles Morgan. First edition. A best-selling novel that was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for 1932. A romantic war novel set in the neutral Netherlands during the First World War, often considered Morgan's most successful work. Written by Charles Langbridge Morgan, a British playwright and novelist whose main themes of work were, as he himself put it, "Art, Love, and Death", and the relation between them. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear 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. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.
