sunset von morison (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First US edition. Morison's real name was Albert Henry Ross. Bought from author's estate via daughter. Orange cloth. Octavo. 282 pages. VG copy ( some foxing to endpapers). Dustwrapper complete though substantial edge wear and some loss.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First US edition. Morison's real name was Albert Henry Ross. Bought from author's estate via daughter. Orange cloth. Octavo. 282 pages. VG copy ( some foxing to endpapers). Dustwrapper complete though substantial edge wear and some loss.

FIRST EDITION, drawings to the text, faint spot carrying through at foot of prelims, some light handling marks, pp. 286, crown 8vo, original pink cloth, backstrip lettered in dark green with a touch of fading at tips, a few light handling marks to upper board, top edge pink, edges and endpapers lightly spotted, dustjacket with a design by A.E. Taylor, a little chipped and nicked, backstrip panel sunned, very good. 'Frank Morison' was the nom-de-plume of Albert Ross, who was presumably sick of people asking to see his wingspan. Faber had published his previous book, 'Who Moved the Stone?', an exegetical work expressing his scepticism regarding the facts of Jesus's resurrection - which T.S. Eliot in his reader's report had, despite initial reservations, commended as 'well written' and 'as absorbing as a detective story'. Dorothy L. Sayers cited it as an influence on her 'The Man Born to be King'. This is his first novel, a work of science fiction, similarly provocative, in which physicist John Byford establishes radio communication with a dying planet three light years from Earth, from which he receives the prediction of his own planet's imminent destruction. Ross, who worked as an advertising agent, was raised in Birmingham and educated at King Edward VI school in Stratford-upon-Avon, whose other old boys include William Shakespeare ('Richard II' providing one of the book's epigraphs) and this cataloguer.