FULL PAGE AUTHOR'S INSCRIPTION
Strangers and Brothers
Macmillan, 1940.
First edition. Original green cloth titled in red, in red and white printed dustwrapper. With a full page inscription by the author to the front endpaper explaining the genesis of the book and the series it spawned, "The idea of this book came to me, together with a vague foretaste of the whole series, on a January night in Marseilles in 1935 - it was bitterly cold. The book was begun in Radminster, Essex, in July '35, and written in Cambridge and various places on holiday - Antibes, Loxley, Agaf, Alfadena (California). It was re-written in Cambridge in 1939 and finally finished in Francis Brett Young's house at Telland in April 1940. CP Snow May 25/50". Also included is a covering letter from Snow to the recipient of the inscription, a Mr. Addyes-Scott, asking if the inscription is suitable. A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper, which shows some shallow chipping to the spine ends and wear to the corners.
The first book in the author's Strangers and Brothers series. Uncommon in dustwrapper and especially so signed with such a long inscription.
PROVENANCE: Addyes-Scott, accompanying letter from Snow present.
Stock ID: 32680
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