Cyril Connolly.. ENEMIES OF PROMISE.. , 1938.

Price: US$44.83 + shipping

Description: 1938, London, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., first edition, pp340, blue cloth. Binding a bit rough, some foxing, pencil numbers on inside of back cover.

Seller: Graham York Rare Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom

CONNOLLY, Cyril.. Enemies of Promise.. , 1938.

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Description: George Routledge and sons Ltd., London. 1938. First edition. Hardback NO DW. Large thick 8vo. Blue cloth boards with gilt to spine. Ex-library with remains of sticker to upper. Spine slightly faded and stained and corners are bumped. Page edges browned. Pen mark to lower edges. Ownership signature and sticker inside upper and inner hinge is visible to front and back. Overall a nice sound copy.

Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom

Connolly, Cyril.. ENEMIES OF PROMISE.. George Routledge, 1938.

Price: US$108.55 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1938. George Routledge. First. Hard Cover. Book- Good, gilt titles on spine, red boards, spine discoloured, foxing throughout. 8.5x5.5. 339pp. In this volume the author Cyril Connolly combines descriptions of his life with an exploration of his failure to become the successful author of fiction he had hoped.

Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom

Connolly, Cyril. ENEMIES OF PROMISE. George Routledge & Sons, London, 1938.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: Large octavo. Gilt black cloth. Crown of spine very faintly bumped, tiny private bookplate in upper corner of front pastedown concealed by jacket flap, otherwise a near fine copy in good (price-clipped) dust jacket with shallow losses at crown of spine and along top edge, and clean break along the upper spine fold. First edition of this major work in which Connolly scrutinizes his education and charts his way in the ranks of his contemporaries.

Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.