Party Going.
GREEN, Henry.
Party Going.
First Edition of Henry Green's Party Going; In the Rare Original Dust Jacket
London: The Hogarth Press, 1969.
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Item Number: 150647
First edition, early printing of this modernist masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is in very good condition with a closed tear to the rear panel. Jacket design by John Banting.
Party Going, published in 1939, is Henry Green’s darkly comic valediction to what W. H. Auden famously described as the “low dishonest decade” of the 1930s. London is sunk in an impenetrable fog. Traffic has come to a halt. Stranded in the train station and the hotel connected to it are a group of bright young things waiting to catch a train to the Continent, where their enormously rich friend Max is throwing a party. Green’s characters worry and wonder and wander in and out of each other’s company (and arms and beds), in pursuit of and pursued by their own secrets and desires.
