CYRIL CONNOLLY AND PETER LEVI. — Shade Those Laurels. A novel.
Bellew Publishing, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Tall 8vo. 174pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. Waterstone & Co. inkstamp to the head of the front free endpaper. A virtually fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Connolly's unfinished novel was originally published as a work in progress in the periodical 'Encounter' in 1956 and he continued to work on it, on and off, for the rest of his life. Peter Levi here contributes the fourth and final chapter to provide a solution to the mysterious death of Sir Mortimer Gussage., Near Fine, Fine