Personal Record 1928-1939, Julian Green — 1st Edition

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Personal Record 1928-1939, Julian Green — 1st Edition

Name: Personal Record 1928-1939, Julian Green — 1st Edition
Brand: Broadhursts Books
SKU: 6071
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Publication: London, Hamish Hamilton, Ltd., 1940

Formatting: 8vo, pp. [v], 342.

Condition Report: Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. The publisher's original teal cloth binding is exceptionally bright and fresh, with brilliant gilt titling to the spine and sharp, unbumped corners that demonstrate minimal shelf-wear. The binding remains tight and square. Internally, the pages are crisp, unmarked, and clean, with only a whisper of faint dust toning to the smooth top edge of the text block, while the fore-edge remains bright. The unclipped dust wrapper, retaining its original 12s. 6d. net price, is highly presentable; it shows light, even age-toning and some minor, scattered spotting to the panels and spine, alongside faint edge-wear and slight rubbing to the extremities. It is now preserved in a protective clear sleeve.

Catalogue Note: First UK Edition, translated from the French by Jocelyn Godefroi. Printed in the United States of America, this Hamish Hamilton issue represents the first appearance of Green's celebrated diaries for the British market.

Copies of this wartime British edition are increasingly scarce on the open market, particularly when retaining their original, unclipped dust wrappers in such bright, unrestored condition.

A compelling and deeply intimate journal covering a pivotal eleven-year period, Personal Record 1928-1939 offers an absorbing glimpse into the mind of American-born author Julian Green. Immersed in the inner circle of Parisian artistic and literary life, Green provides witty and illuminating reflections on encounters with prominent contemporaries such as Salvador Dalí, Gertrude Stein, and André Gide. Beyond its historical portrait of pre-war Paris, the memoir stands as a profound study of a novelist's working methods and the private, spiritual evolution of a writer widely celebrated as one of the most remarkable figures in contemporary French letters.

Book Condition: Very Good

Book Authors: Julian Green

Book Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, Ltd.

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Non-Fiction

Genre: Autobiography, Biography & Memoirs

Book edition: First Edition

Signed: No

Book Pages: 342

Book Publication Year: 1940

Book Publication Date:

Book Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: N/A

Book Series: N/A

Country/region of manufacture: London, United Kingdom

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