Daylight on Saturday

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943.

Price: $30.00

Hardcover. First American edition. Light toning on pastedown endpapers along the gutter, boards bowed, very good in a very good dust jacket with moderate edgewear, and light rubbing and soiling.

Item #548896

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Item #548896 Daylight on Saturday. J. B. PRIESTLEY.

J.B. Priestley
birth name: John Boynton Priestley
born: 9/13/1894
died: 8/14/1984

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Biography

British novelist, playwright, and essayist who is noted for his shrewd characterizations. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
In 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