By: Hanley, James; Powys, John Cowper
Price: $60.00
Publisher:
New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1932
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 2303185
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
First American edition, in what appears to be later state jacket (white titles and art, not red, no price on flap). Jacket edges rubbed wtih a few very minor chips. 1932 Hard Cover. xi, 297 pp. Preface by John Cowper Powys. Five stories by James Hanley. James (Joseph) Hanley (3 September 1897 11 November 1985) was a British novelist, short story writer, and playwright from Kirkdale, Liverpool, Lancashire, of Irish descent. Hanley came from a seafaring family and spent two years at sea himself, during World War I. He published his first novel Drift in 1930. In the 1930s and 1940s his novels an...
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