BRENAN, Gerald. A Holiday by the Sea. London: Hamish Hamilton, [1961]. 8°. Half title. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket designed by Fritz Wegner with price of 16s unclipped. FIRST EDITION, 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 A Life of One’s Own ([1962]), The Lighthouse Always Says Yes ([1966]), St John of the Cross (Cambridge, 1973), Personal Record 1920-1972 ([1974]), The Magnetic Moment. Poems (North Walsham, “Warren House Press,” 1978 [but 1977], LIMITED EDITION), Thoughts in a dry season (Cambridge, 1978), all FIRST EDITIONS IN DUST-JACKETS, PRESENTATION COPIES TO ANTHONY HOBSON; with Mark Gertler’s Selected Letters. Edited by Noel Carrington (1965, WITH A ONE-PAGE AUTOGRAPH INSCRIPTION BY GERALD BRENAN, on the subject of ‘Carrington’, on the front free endpaper, and occasional related annotation throughout).