The Last and the First

Ivy Compton Burnett

ISBN 10: 0394470400 / ISBN 13: 9780394470405

Published by Alfred a Knopf, New York, 1971

About this Item

*** BOOK in fine unmarked condition. Maroon cloth boards with title in gilt on the spine and C-B blind stamped on upper board. 147 pages, fore edge untrimmed. This novel was complete but unedited at the time of the author's death in 1969, and the minimum of editing took place before publication. *** DUST JACKET in good condition, Chip on front (see image) otherwise some shelfwear, not price clipped and now Trimsleeve protected. *** CONTENTS: This was the nineteenth, and last, of the author's stories about the horrors of life in Victorian country houses. ***CONTENTS: The author's familiar themes of power, tyranny and moral corruption are played out in an outwardly genteel Edwardian setting. Scarse US first edition. Size: 210x145mm.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Last and the First
• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394470400
• ISBN 13: 9780394470405
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First American Editon.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction First Edition

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Synopsis

The Last and the First was Ivy Compton-Burnett's final novel. In it she deals with her familiar themes - tyranny, power and corruption. Although the novel was unfinished at the time of her death in 1969, it combines the brilliant wit and incisive insight into human relationships which make her one of the most original novelists in English literature.