An Aspidistra in Babylon

First edition, 1960. Four novellas from H E Bates

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First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 20.5 × 13cm, 239pp.

This collection of four novellas continue Bates's sensitive, often witty, explorations of unhappy love. The title story, 'An Aspidistra in Babylon', is a reminiscence of a girl's loss of innocence. Christine, who describes herself at eighteen as 'dull as one of the aspidistras that cluttered up... our little boarding house' is seduced by the forty-year-old Captain Blaine, who charms her imagination with stories of a life on the Continent.

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The book is in good solid condition, with heavy foxing to the pages edges. The dustwrapper is tanned to the spine but remains attractive and is now within a protective sleeve.

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