MANHOOD, HAROLD ALFRED

A group of 12 volumes by H. A. Manhood, including a handwritten journal of letters and diary entries in his hand, circa 1944. Manhood was a peer of Graham Greene and Dylan Thomas, who retired to the Sussex countryside, living in a railway carriage and brewing cider. His collection of papers are in the British Library. London: Jonathon Cape, 1934. 8vo., red cloth boards, in dustwrapper. First edition. Fine in lightly soiled dustwrapper. London: Jonathon Cape, 1935. 8vo., yellow cloth, in dustwrapper. First edition. Fine; 1 inch tear to rear panel of dustwrapper; otherwise fine. London: Jonathon Cape, 1930. 8vo., grey cloth. First edition, second printing. Fine in faded dustwrapper; chipping to top edge of dustwrapper; otherwise sound. London: Joiner & Steele, 1931. 8vo., yellow cloth boards. 1 of 550 copies printed at the Chiswick Press and signed by the author. Light soiling to boards; otherwise fine. London: William Heinemann, 1953. 8vo., blue cloth boards, in dustwrapper. First edition. Non-authorial signature to f.f.e.p.; otherwise fine; 2 inch tear to front panel of dustwrapper; otherwise fine. London: Grayson and Grayson, 1935. 8vo., gilt-decorated red cloth boards, in dustwrapper. 1 of 285 copies, signed and numbered by author. Fine in fine dustwrapper. London: Jonathon Cape, 1947. (2 copies). 8vo., brown cloth boards. First edition. Inscribed by author to f.f.e.p. of 1 copy. Fine in fine dustwrapper. London: Jonathon Cape, 1939. 8vo., brown cloth boards. First edition. Read more…