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LAMBERT,J[ack]. W[alter]: : The Bodley Head 1887-1987

LONDON.THE BODLEY HEAD,1987.

ISBN 0370309499.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NMINT/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,white background with brown+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges crisp, exceptionally bright and clean - no ageing or toning; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Exceptionally bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain red cloth bds with exceptionally bright and crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate tinted plain pale grey eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,viipp+3-364pp [paginated] includes illustrations list/table, Pts I-III comprising 28 chapters and an Envoi and afterword,16 b/w line illus on tinted pale grey paper,24pp contemporary b/w autobiographical, caricature (1),28 b/w photographs of Bodley Head's already published authors,2 b/w line illus of company's offices,publisher's note, appendix: The Bodley Head booklets, and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table,and Pts separator pages. Among the varied and crowded cast of characters in this eventful narrative are John Lane's first authors who flourished during the 'Naughty Nineties',the contributors to 'The Yellow Book',Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley,the incomparable Max Beerbohm and the ever affable G.K. Chesterton,the writers of the Great War,illuminated by Andre Maurois's Colonel Bramble and Doctor O'Grady; the freshly spotted talents of C.S. Forester and Agatha Christie; James Joyce and the troubled birth of 'Ulysses',more or less coinciding with the auspicious birth of Allen Lane's Penguin Books. More recent lists have been distinguished by the presence of writers such as Graham Greene and Alistair Cooke,Georgette Heyer and Winston Graham,William Trevor and Muriel Spark,the grandiose Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the legendary Charlie Chaplin,who prided himself on writing his autobiography all in his own words.Jewels of the children's list have ranged chronologically from Kenneth Grahame to Maurice Sendak. Names such as these represent just some of the highlights in the story of the publishing house founded by John Lane.The Bodley Head's subsequent owners have included Allen Lane,Stanley Unwin and Max Reinhardt,before it joined forces with Jonathan Cape and Chatto & Windus,two houses of comparable distinction in the world of letters. Combining scrupulous research with a perfct sense of period,the late Jack Lambert has produced a company history with a difference - replete with good stories and sketches of notable,if occasionally eccentric, literati. This work was published postumously,as Lambert had delivered some three quarters of this,his History of The Bodley head' when he died suddenly,aged 69.The work has been completed by Michael Ratcliffe, a distinguished journalist and currently (then 1987) theatre critic for 'The Obsever'. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.

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