AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS): Essay on Edward Upward
January 1987. Manuscript. Handwritten Manuscript draft in blue and red ink consisting of five 8-1/4" x 12" pages on rectos only dated and SIGNED by Spender at the bottom of the first page and INSCRIBED and INITIALED at the top of the first page: "Dear Mr Goddard Here are/some pages of my writing S. S." Spender's essay concerns the British novelist and short story writer Edward Falaise Upward whose first novel, JOURNEY TO THE BORDER, was published by the Hogarth Press in 1938, the year Virginia Woolf relinquished her interest in the business. The novel describes in poetic prose the rebellion of a private tutor against his employer and the menacing world of the 1930s, moving from a nightmarish state to one where he recognizes that he must join the workers' movement. Good to Very Good with excellent content. Item #022137
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