The Near & The Far. Containing The Root and the Flower & The Pool of Vishnu

First published in 1935, and as a collected edition in 1943, this is a third impression of 1956. Some edge wear, chipping, small loss and short closed tears to top and bottom of fabulous retro jacket and spine, corners rubbed with small loss, spine slightly faded and browned, some yellowing and faint damp staining to back jacket, folds rubbed, not price clipped (30s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 950pp. Myers' trilogy/tetralogy 'The Root and the Flower' set in India at the time of Akbar, is his major work and was recognised by the award of the 1935 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Myers was on the edge of the Bloomsbury group, and knew L. P. Hartley (who wrote the Introduction to this edition|), Aelfrida Tillyard and Max Plowman. He kept up a lengthy correspondence with Olaf Stapledon. Other friends were David Lindsay, Frank Dobson and Charles le Gai Eaton. By an anonymous loan he helped George Orwell travel to Morocco in 1938, to convalesce from tuberculosis. Sadly Myers committed suicide on 7th April 1944 by taking an overdose of Veronal.…