Room at the top
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Room at the top
Classmark: Manuscripts BC MS 20c Braine (ROO 1957)
Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1957
Language: English
Size and medium: 256 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/778789
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020508296205181
Description
Dustjacket design by John Minton.
Leeds University Library copy at Manuscripts Brotherton Collection MS 20c Braine (ROO proof copy) is a rough uncorrected proof copy of the Eyre & Spottiswoode hardcover first edition.
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Manuscripts Brotherton Collection MS 20c Braine (ROO 1957): contemporary publisher's green cloth and original dustjacket.
Leeds University Library copy at Manuscripts Brotherton Collection MS 20c Braine (ROO proof copy): contemporary brown paper wrappers with printed book label on front cover.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Manuscripts Brotherton Collection MS 20c Braine (ROO 1957): first edition hardcover, acquired in 2023. Twentieth-century/twenty-first-century printed booklabel on front pastedown: Julian Barnes [i.e. Julian Barnes (1946-), writer].
Leeds University Library copy at Manuscripts Brotherton Collection MS 20c Braine (ROO proof copy): acquired in 2023. Twentieth-century printed label on front cover: Rough uncorrected proof copy for your personal reading Room at the top by John Braine [with MS. annotation in blue ink]: names of people & places will be changed before publication. MS annotation at top of front cover: Publication March 14th. Occasional MS annotations on the text in pencil.