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HAMPSON, John [i.e. John Hampson SIMPSON]. Saturday Night at the Greyhound, London, Hogarth Press, 1931, 8°, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author on title under his pseudonym, original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt (but rubbed). [Woolmer Hogarth Press 256]
Although now largely forgotten, this novel of provincial life was much praised when it first appeared. John Simpson had a mania for the colour brown, constantly dressing in the colour and writing in brown ink on brown paper. He became a close friend of E.M. Forster who met him though the Woolfs, following the publication of the novel, and thought him "a saint-like character" though for a period he had lived as a book thief.
Although now largely forgotten, this novel of provincial life was much praised when it first appeared. John Simpson had a mania for the colour brown, constantly dressing in the colour and writing in brown ink on brown paper. He became a close friend of E.M. Forster who met him though the Woolfs, following the publication of the novel, and thought him "a saint-like character" though for a period he had lived as a book thief.