River Niger
London: Boriswood, 1935.
First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 287 pp. Fine copy in publisher's yellow cloth. Prospectus for another Boriswood title (Vardis Fisher's I See No Sin) laid in. No dust jacket. Lawrence was asked by the editor to comment on the novel before publication. His report--in the form of an informal letter--was less than favorable ("Jesty's world is incredibly small. It holds only about eight named characters who bump together whether they stay put or wander abroad. Wilkie Collins and his generation flourished on coincidences but Jesty out-Victoria's them. He has not one but twenty incredible coincidences"), but the publisher rather curiously elected to include it as a preface.
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