"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke
Borrowed Time. Short Stories selected by Alan and Jennifer Ross.
London: The Grey Walls Press, 1951. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 447 [3]. Publisher's red cloth blocked in black, illustrated. With the typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 12/6 to front flap. Very light toning else a clean, fresh copy. Uncommon in this condition. A posthumous collection of short stories from the Irish-American Jazz Age writer. Includes 'May Day', considered the most bitter and mature of all his tales, and the wonderful satire 'The Diamond as Big as The Ritz', a story of the richest and most unsympathetic man in the world. Item #75464
Price: £120.00
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