JOHNSON (B.S.).

Travelling People.

First edition. 8vo., original black cloth, dust jacket by John Holden. London, Constable, 1963.

£325.00

A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket of Johnson’s first novel, his characteristically ludic and bawdy style here arriving fully formed. Johnson later came to regret what he called the ‘dishonesty’ of cloaking autobiography in fictional dress, but was not above poking fun at himself, as here ‘You know perfectly well that I’m a member of the ‘aven’t garde’.

Stock No.
121962