The Horse's Mouth
Penguin Main Series Number 648. 1st Edition, published 1948.
The Horse's Mouth, is perhaps the finest novel ever written about an artist. Its painter hero, the charming and larcenous Gulley Jimson, has an insatiable genius for creation and a no less remarkable appetite for destruction. Is he a great artist? a has-been? or an exhausted, drunken ne'er-do-well? He is without doubt a visionary, and as he criss-crosses London in search of money and inspiration the world as seen though his eyes appears with a newly outrageous and terrible beauty.
Condition grading: Good. Some creasing to spine. Some light foxing to rear cover. Usual page tanning/foxing for age. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin Main Series Number 648. 1st Edition, published 1948.
The Horse's Mouth, is perhaps the finest novel ever written about an artist. Its painter hero, the charming and larcenous Gulley Jimson, has an insatiable genius for creation and a no less remarkable appetite for destruction. Is he a great artist? a has-been? or an exhausted, drunken ne'er-do-well? He is without doubt a visionary, and as he criss-crosses London in search of money and inspiration the world as seen though his eyes appears with a newly outrageous and terrible beauty.
Condition grading: Good. Some creasing to spine. Some light foxing to rear cover. Usual page tanning/foxing for age. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin Main Series Number 648. 1st Edition, published 1948.
The Horse's Mouth, is perhaps the finest novel ever written about an artist. Its painter hero, the charming and larcenous Gulley Jimson, has an insatiable genius for creation and a no less remarkable appetite for destruction. Is he a great artist? a has-been? or an exhausted, drunken ne'er-do-well? He is without doubt a visionary, and as he criss-crosses London in search of money and inspiration the world as seen though his eyes appears with a newly outrageous and terrible beauty.
Condition grading: Good. Some creasing to spine. Some light foxing to rear cover. Usual page tanning/foxing for age. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
