RHYS, Jean.
Tigers Are Better-Looking with a Selection from The Left Bank.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers , 1974.
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“There is peace in despair in exactly the same way as there is despair in peace": First edition of Jean Rhys's Tigers Are Better-Looking with a selection from The Left Bank; signed by her
First edition of this collection incorporating the author's earliest and most mature short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Jean Rhys on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Fay Godwin.
Tigers Are Better-Looking incorporates selections from Jean Rhys's first book of stories, The Left Bank, published in 1927, and later stories written after 1939. Writing for the New York Times, A. Alvarez called the collection "extraordinary" and referred to Rhys as “quite simply, the best living English novelist".
Tigers Are Better-Looking with a Selection from The Left Bank.
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