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ALDINGTON, Richard.
Death of a Hero.
Publisher: Paris: Henri Babou and Jack Kahane, 1930
Stock code: 69288
Price: £475 Currency Conversion
Authorized unexpurgated edition, this number 248 of 300 copies. This two-volume Paris printing contains much material left out of the London first edition of the previous year for fear of legal action. Death of a Hero was considered by Orwell to be 'much the best of the English war books,' while Aldington himself thought of it as a 'jazz novel.' "It is one of the bitterest war novels that has been written, yet strangely enough the actual scene of war is less horrible in its pages than comfortable England in the days before. To say that Mr. Aldington's indictment is in any sense judicial would be absurd; it is far too savage for that. But is power is considerable. The war scenes are among the best of their kind" (Falls).
2 volumes, quarto. Original folded buff wrappers over plain light card wraps, titles to spines and upper wraps in dark brown. Wraps a little rubbed, spines creased and a small repair at the head of the spine of volume I, otherwise a very good set, unopened.
