THE TRIP TO LONDON: STORIES. London, Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd, [1946]. Octavo, original terra cotta cloth, spine panel stamped in silver. First edition. Collects eleven stories, dark domestic dramas, some with Welsh settings. Davies, a Welshman, wrote about his native country with a mixture of affection and honesty that displeased many of his countrymen. He was a friend of John Gawsworth (i.e. T. I. Fytton Armstrong), who put stories by Davies into several of his weird anthologies in the 1930s, and featured him in Ten Contemporaries, his 1932 bibliography. NCBEL IV 558. A fine copy in near fine printed dust jacket with light edge wear and mild dust soiling. (#128164).
Price: $35.00
"FIRST PUBLISHED 1946" on copyright page.