The Golden Sovereign: A Conclusion to Over the Bridge

Richard Church

Published by Heinemann, London, 1957

A smart first edition of this autobiographical work from English writer Richard Church, signed and inscribed to W. A. Foyle. First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author to the front endpaper to William Alfred Westropp Foyle, a British bookseller and businessman who co-founded Foyles bookshop in 1903. As one of the leading London booksellers of the twentieth century, when the brothers opened their first bookshop the business grew so rapidly that by the 1920s they held a stock of four million volumes. The second volume of the autobiography of Richard Thomas Church, an English writer, poet and critic, who also wrote novels and verse plays. The novelist Howard Spring described it as "the loveliest autobiography written in our time." From the library of Christopher Foyle, a British philanthropist and the chairman of the famous Foyle's Bookshop in London. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with minor wear to the extremities and the odd small closed tear. Minor sunning to the spine with the odd small spot to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd page tip folded. Fine. Seller Inventory # 911T50

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Golden Sovereign: A Conclusion to Over ...
Publisher: Heinemann, London
Publication Date: 1957
Binding: Cloth
Illustrator: None
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: signed by author
Edition: First edition.
Book Type: book