1941, ISBN: 2cd6e63b3d7814ba54f9fa698d1333d7

First edition

[SC: 11.41], [PU: London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1941], BOOKS AUTOGRAPHS & SIGNED INSCRIBED, OR WITH LETTER LITERATURE MODERN FANTASY, SCIENCE FICTION AND GOTHIC ONLINE CATALOGUES CA… More...

[SC: 11.41], [PU: London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1941], BOOKS AUTOGRAPHS & SIGNED INSCRIBED, OR WITH LETTER LITERATURE MODERN FANTASY, SCIENCE FICTION AND GOTHIC ONLINE CATALOGUES CATALOGUE 163 NOISBN, First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. The Aerodrome was Warner's wartime dystopia, his third novel, in which he "reverted in part to a non-realistic, expressionist technique. Generally regarded as his best novel, this deeply gloomy work also sees human values collapsing before a rising tide of nihilistic materialism" (ODNB). Aerodrome was included in Anthony Burgess's list of Ninety-Nine Novels, with Burgess recounting how he read the book on return from the war, and was struck by its combining Kafkaesque qualities with three-dimensional character writing. He concludes that its claim to "be regarded as a modern classic is as sound as that of Orwell's novel [Nineteen Eighty Four]". The book is already very scarce in jacket, and this is the first signed copy that we have handled. Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine in pale pink. With dust jacket, designed by Donovan Lloyd. Spine sunned to purple beneath the jacket, but a sound and clean copy in excellent condition with the jacket quite dust-soiled and with two closed tears to front panel from the top edge, and some other minor nibbling at ends and corners.<

1941, ISBN: 2cd6e63b3d7814ba54f9fa698d1333d7

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1941. A rare wartime dystopia, signed First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. The Aerodrome was Warner's war… More...

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1941. A rare wartime dystopia, signed First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. The Aerodrome was Warner's wartime dystopia, his third novel, in which he "reverted in part to a non-realistic, expressionist technique. Generally regarded as his best novel, this deeply gloomy work also sees human values collapsing before a rising tide of nihilistic materialism" (ODNB). Aerodrome was included in Anthony Burgess's list of Ninety-Nine Novels, with Burgess recounting how he read the book on return from the war, and was struck by its combining Kafkaesque qualities with three-dimensional character writing. He concludes that its claim to "be regarded as a modern classic is as sound as that of Orwell's novel [Nineteen Eighty Four]". The book is already very scarce in jacket, and this is the first signed copy that we have handled. Octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine in pale pink. With dust jacket, designed by Donovan Lloyd. Spine sunned to purple beneath the jacket, but a sound and clean copy in excellent condition with the jacket quite dust-soiled and with two closed tears to front panel from the top edge, and some other minor nibbling at ends and corners., London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1941, 0<

1944, ISBN: 2cd6e63b3d7814ba54f9fa698d1333d7

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1944. First edition. Penguin paperback edition of novel originally published in 1941. 192 pages. Photograph of author opposite title page. Very Good for a wartime … More...

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1944. First edition. Penguin paperback edition of novel originally published in 1941. 192 pages. Photograph of author opposite title page. Very Good for a wartime publication. A tight, bright copy. Greys Cigarettes advert on back cover. No inscriptions. Scarce. One of the first attempts in English Literature to emulate the writing style of Franz Kafka. Regarded as the author's masterpiece, it has since been published as a Modern Penguin Classic. ., Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1944, 0<