[BRENAN, Gerald]. “George BEATON” (pseud.). Jack Robinson. A Picaresque Novel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1933. 8°. Half title. Original green cloth, spine lettered in red (some very light rubbing at edges), dust-jacket (backstrip very lightly browned, price clipped). FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR’S VERY RARE FIRST AND PSEUDONYMOUS NOVEL, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, “Anthony Hobson with all best wishes from Gerald Brenan.” With 6 other books by the same author, namely Doctor Partridge’s Almanack for 1935 (1934), The Spanish Labyrinth (Cambridge, 1943), Current Affairs. Spanish Scene (“The Bureau of Current Affairs,” [1946], 16-pages, original wrappers), The Face of Spain (“Turnstile Press,” 1950, without dust-jacket), The Literature of the Spanish People (Cambridge, 1951) and South from Granada ([1957]), all FIRST EDITIONS IN DUST-JACKETS, except where indicated. PRESENTATION COPIES TO ANTHONY HOBSON.