Howard spring biography
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Howard Spring Book Collection
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Medium: Printed
Number of items: 61 items
The Cardiff-born novelist (Robert) Howard Spring () became a journalist on the Manchester Guardian in , and is best known for his novel Shabby Tiger (), which is set in Manchester. This collection includes copies of Spring’s novels, short stories, plays and autobiographical writings. There are a number of UK first editions with dust jackets, plus paperbacks with pictorial covers. Also included is a copy of The Queens Book of the Red Cross ([London]: Hodder and Stoughton, ), a fundraising volume for the British Red Cross Society published during the Second World War, to which Spring contributed a short story entitled ‘Christmas Honeymoon’.
Associated works include autobiographies and memoirs by Howard Spring’s wife, Marion Ursula (née Pye) () who wrote under the name Marion Howard Spring.
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Darkie and Co. |
Oxford University Press reprint |
Shabby Tiger |
Collins reprint |
Rachel Rosing |
Collins reprint |
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