Blue Voyage

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927.

Price: $200.00

Hardcover. First edition, limited issue. Some modest scuffing at the foot of the spine, very good in very good slipcase. Copy number 71 of 125 numbered copies Signed by the author. A scarce issue of perhaps the author's most important novel, about a writer on a cruise from America to England. Scarce.

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Item #539678 Blue Voyage. Conrad AIKEN.
Blue Voyage
Blue Voyage

Conrad Aiken
birth name: Conrad Potter Aiken
born: 8/5/1889
died: 8/17/1973

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Biography

Poet, short-story writer, novelist, and critic whose works, influenced by early psychoanalytic theory, are concerned largely with the human need for self-awareness. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
He was the father of Joan Aiken, who wrote many acclaimed books for young adults starting with The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.more