The Nice American.

Publication details: John Lehmann,1951,

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The author's debut novel, positively reviewed by Christopher Isherwood when published in the US - comparing it to 'A Passage to India' as a 'brilliant [...] and deeply moving novel of interracial relationships'. It is set in North Africa, in Algiers - where the titular protagonist, Harlan Childress, an American colonel, has been stationed. It is, the blurb suggests, 'one of the first works of fiction to deal with what is for America an entirely new problem, that has come upon her with lightning suddenness: her responsibilities as the arbiter of world power in the post-war age'.The dustjacket carries a marvellous design by John Minton, this a nice example.

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FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, pp. 304, crown 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip lettered and with a small decoration in gilt, this slightly sunned through the dustjacket and with a tiny amount of fraying at head, light spotting to edges and endpapers, dustjacket with designs to front and backstrip panels by John Minton, the backstrip panel slightly sunned, rear panel foxed, a couple of increibly faint spots visible to white areas elsewhere, very shallow chipping at extremities, small and faint stain at foot of front flap, very good

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