CONNOLLY, Cyril. Enemies of Promise. London: George Routledge & Sons, ltd., [1938]. 8°. Half title, half tone plate (some light spotting to first and last few leaves). Original dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt (ex-library copy, extremities lightly rubbed, without the dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, “Inscribed for Anthony Hobson by Cyril Connolly. An artist hee[sic] of character complex/money hee loved and next to money sex/no roses culled hee from the muses garden/neurosis gripped him in a vice of Auden”, with a further autograph quotation (from Leopardi) on the title page. With the same author’s The Rock Pool (New York, 1936, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, “Anthony from Cyril – This edition was a flop because I would not put my photo on the cover – 350 copies sold! It follows the Paris edition, same plates -”).