London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957.
Price: $950.00
Hardcover. Second printing. Octavo. 256pp. Binding a bit cocked, a bit of light offsetting on the endpapers, and one pair of conjugate leaves neatly tipped back in, about near fine in a near fine "2nd impression" dust jacket with a bit of soiling on the lower panel and a few nicks and short tears. Inscribed on the title page: "Best wishes to Michael Curtis- John Braine 1981." Author's important first book and the basis for the 1959 film directed by Jack Clayton and featuring Laurence Harvey and Simone Signoret. Signoret and Neil Patterson, who adapted the book, won Oscars; the film itself, Harvey, Clayton and Hermione Baddeley were nominated.
Item #499230
John Braine
birth name: John Gerard Braine
born: 4/13/1922
died: 10/28/1987
nationality: Great Britain