The Hollow Men by Hutchison, Bruce

Toronto: Longmans Green, 1944. hardcover. Book: Good. 8vo.. 278 pp. 5 3/4 x 8 1/4. Red cloth covered boards, stamped in gold on spine. No dj. Sun faded spine.

Toronto : Longmans Green , 1944 . First Canadian Edition . VG/VG . 8VO . Author's first novel and second book. Canadian copyright information in the American Coward McCann jacket. Light wear, gift inscription, jacket spine faded, jacket rubbed, worn at corners.

Toronto, Longmans, Green & Co, 1944;. 1st Canadian edition; Hardback; Very good/ No dj; 280pp; Red covers with gilt title on spine. .

Toronto: Longman, Green, 1944. Hard bound. First Canadian Edition. Some soiling to top edge, else very good in slightly chipped near very good dust jacket. 500 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1944 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Published near the end of WW II, Bruce Hutchison's only novel, The Hollow Men (1944), is a rarely-mentioned portrait of a journalist named Leslie Duncan who is torn between his father's beloved Cariboo ranch and his political responsibilities in both Washington, D.C., and Ottawa ("the counterfeit little world on Parliament Hill") during WWII. Leslie Duncan yearns to be something more than another of the "hollow men" described in T.S. Eliot's famous poem. The Hollow Men is an unusually sophisticated portrayal of both the country life of ranchers and the limitations of politics. It evokes the plight of a B.C. intellectual who feels alienated from the centres of power: a timeless subject for anyone west of the Rockies. Nauseated by the intrigue and interminable talk of Ottawa, Duncan is likewise disillusioned by the staged bravado and empty mythology of the United States. Life at his Cariboo ranch… Read More

Coward-McCann Inc. Used - Acceptable.

New York: Coward-McCann Inc, 1944. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo. Full green cloth. 280 pp. Foxing to cloth, light abrading to extremities. Spine tilted. Bookplate to ffep. Dust jacket is edge worn, foxed, sunned to spine, a few short tears and small chips.