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J. B. PRIESTLEY

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J. B. PRIESTLEY
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>J. B. PRIESTLEY </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Preface To “Angel Pavement”</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR>John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984). English author and playwright depicting the ordinary archetypal Englishman. His works include <i>The Good Companions</i> (1929), <i>An Inspector Calls</i> (1946) and numerous critical works. AMsS, 7½pp, 4to, n.p., n.d. Several amendments throughout in his holograph. Being Priestley’s “<i>Preface</i>” to his novel <i>Angel Pavement</i> published in London, 1930. He remarks, “...<i>No novelist can escape from autobiography because every writer must in the last resort express his own temperament. But some novelists are almost directly autobiographical, dealing only with the kinds of life which they have had first-hand experience...I belong to the non-autobiographical class. Thus I have neither lived nor worked in the City of London. Actually I know very little about the City. I have never even spent a morning in any street remotely resembling ‘Angel Pavement’. On the other hand, it is impossible to live in London, as I have done on and off for the last ten years, without coming into contact with the various modes of life I have attempted to present in this novel.</i>..” Much more. Boldly penned. Also present is a carbon typescript (4¼pp, 4to, n.p., n.d.) of the “Preface” reflecting the corrections Priestley’s made to the manuscript. Small paperclip stain at top left margin; o/w Fine.</span></p>