About this title: In this mid-life autobiography (1938) the English novelist Henry Green recounts his life up to the point where he began to write seriously. The book covers his privileged childhood; the loathed boarding school he was sent to at the age of six; the joy he took in fishing, books, and the company of the workers in his father's foundry; and his eventual arrival at Oxford--where he wrote his first novel, BLINDNESS.
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date Published: 2004-04
ISBN-13:9780811215725ISBN:0811215725
Description: Very Good. Clean unmarked pages. Clean unmarked cover. Has some shelf wear. 100% satisfaction guaranteed. SAVE Money on S and Handling, buy more than one book from us as a time! Items are from a smoke free and air conditioned environment. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-13:9780811212342ISBN:0811212343
Description: Very Good. DJ. 0811212343 First Edition, First Printing. NEAR FINE+ hardcover book in NEAR FINE+ dust-jacket. NOT marked. NOT price-clipped. NOT remaindered. NOT faded. NOT book club edition. NOT ex-library. All of our dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective book jacket covers. read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780811215725ISBN:0811215725
Description: Good. Paperback, larger format, good condition. Cover image is a stock image and may vary. Your book will be securely packed and promptly dispatched from our UK warehouse. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Hogarth Press
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780701200824ISBN:0701200820
Description: VG+ in VG jacket. Jacket is rubbed with some of the lamination peeling at the bottom. Henry Green's autobiography written at the start of WWII. Green, a novelist of the Brideshead Generation, didn't expect to survive the war. He did. First published by Hogarth in 1940, this is a new edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hard Cover. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Hogarth Press, London
Date Published: 1940
Description: Near Fine/Good. FIRST EDITION. 246 pp., in red cloth with gilt lettering, 1/2 inch square mark on the spine, otherwise vg/near fine. 2nd issue wrapper faded on spine with 1 inch x 1/2 inch section missing in the middle of the spine (removal of price? ). Otherwise a very good clean copy. 18b. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Hogarth Press, London
Date Published: 1940
Description: Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the pale green dust jacket lettered in red. Neat ownership inscription to front free endpaper, spine a little rolled in the dust jacket with the usual browning to spine and edges, an excellent copy. First edition, first impression sheets, in the secondary binding and dust jacket, issued in March 1943 as no. 3 in the Hogarth Crown Library series. Originally published October 1940 in an edition of 1, 500 copies. Woolmer 468. read more
Edition: First
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: Hogarth Press, London
Date Published: 1940
ISBN-13:9780811215725ISBN:0811215725
Description: First edition. Near fine in spine-tanned good plus, second issue dustwrapper with the folds professionally reinforced. Author's quirky memoir, written when he was 33, and in anticipation of what he believed to be his coming slaughter. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corpor
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780811212342ISBN:0811212343
Description: Good. Used Condition-GOOD can be a well cared for Book that is in great condition to a Book that may show some signs of wear. GOOD Books sometimes are permanently marked; have some spine or page creases; exibit signs of aging or an ExLibrary copy. ** Sometimes grease pencil or permanent marking on cover. May contain limited notes and or highlighting. 100% Satisfaction guaranteed on all purchases. ** SHIPS FROM USA-Domestic Delivery takes 5-14 days ** read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corpor
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780811212342ISBN:0811212343
Description: Very Good. Book jacket covered with mylar. Usual Ex-Library markings. Overal very good condition with mild to general shelf wear. At McKenzie Michaels we strive to meet your needs and ship within 24 business hours by media mail. We are very competitive in pricing and confirm every order. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. read more
""We who must die soon...should chase our memories back, standing, when they are found, enough apart not to be too near what they once meant." One of those elegant memoirs, whose best moments come when describing other people."
"Henry Green is one of those writers I should like but haven't read - a pre-war British wit, a little more serious than E. Waugh. But damn if this mid-career memoir wasn't a precious and overwritten waste of time (both for Green to write and me to read). His son's introduction as much as admits that the book could've used more editing, but I'm not sure that would've helped me dislike it less. Perhaps it's the subject matter - hardships at Eton and Oxford, and the difficulties of living on an estate, don't make for especially compelling reading. An epilogue about the couple of months Green spent working at his family's factory doesn't redeem it; Orwell he ain't.
I wouldn't have been able to say when I got this book except for the receipt I found inside - September 14, 2007, at the Biography bookstore, for $5.96."
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