The English
New York: Viking, 1973.
Price: $18.00
Hardcover. First edition. Very good hardcover with Good dustwrapper. First edition. The book spine ends and cover edges have minor rubbing, text is clean. The dustwrapper panel edges have minor chipping with a few small tears, panels have light fading, flaps are lightly creased. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Item #267238
ISBN: 0670296309
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J.B. Priestley
birth name: John Boynton Priestley
born: 9/13/1894
died: 8/14/1984
Biography
British novelist, playwright, and essayist who is noted for his shrewd characterizations. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of LiteratureIn 1932, when Priestley was one of Heinemann's best-selling authors, he saw a copy of the proofs of Graham Greene's Stamboul Train and determined that he was being caricatured by Greene (who in fact had in fact never met nor read the author). Priestley threatened a libel suit and the publisher knuckled under, forcing the young and relatively unknown Greene to revise the text.more