G.K. Chesterton Lot n° 44

Chesterton (G.K.) The Napoleon of Notting Hill, first edition, 7 plates by W.Graham Robertson and map, 22pp. advertisements at end, free endpapers browned, original pictorial grey-green cloth stamped in black and red, rubbed, spine browned and worn at head, 1904 § Maugham (W.Somerset) The Narrow Corner, 1932 § Waugh (Evelyn) The Loved One, illustrations by Stuart Boyle, [1948] § Russell (Bertrand) Satan in the Suburbs, illustrations by Asgeir Scott, 1953 § Durrell (Lawrence) Mountolive, 1958, first editions, original cloth, the last three with dust-jackets, all a little rubbed; and c.35 others, modern novels, 8vo (c.40)) ⁂ The first is the author's first novel, a satirical fantasy set in the future featuring a main character based on Max Beerbohm, and said to have influenced George Orwell's 1984.