Heys James (1 results)

HEYS, James. Allen Ramsey?Capitalist. London: Lincoln Williams. 1932. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to the spine panel, in the sumptuous dust jacket which goes uncredited. A near fine copy overall, the cloth clean and bright, very gently bumped along edges. The binding tight and gently rolled, the red topstain vivid. The contents mostly fine, some mild marks to the textblock edges, previous owner sticker to front pastedown partially concealed by the dust jacket front flap, and with a handful of pencil crosses at margins, else clean. The dust jacket unclipped (7/6 net), gently bumped along some edges, a few light marks to the spine and rear panel. A sharp example. Seemingly the author's only published novel?and so perhaps pseudonymously written?of proletarian interest. It tells with great honesty one shaky year at the fictional Bunnythorpe Mill in Lancashire, its raucous but conscientious workers and its third-generation owner, Allen Ramsey, who vows to steady the sinking ship amid a changing industrial landscape and natural disaster, and in light of his only son, Young John, shirking the family business in pursuit of mill worker, Jenny. Romance, unionism, politics, and northern grit, graft, and craft are all present and told with some sincerity, from top to bottom. The glorious three-colour art deco dust jacket is sadly uncredited. Scarce in the jacket.