Publication details: Faber and Faber,1937,
Rare Book
Williams' 'spiritual shockers' - novels in which the everyday world experiences the incursion of some element of the supernatural - were admired by peers such as T.S. Eliot, who brought the author over to Faber's list beginning with this work, and C.S. Lewis, who wrote to his fellow Inkling in September of 1937 that 'Descent into Hell' is 'much the best book you have given us yet'.
FIRST EDITION, pp. 305, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, free endpapers and textblock edges slightly spotted, dustjacket with a few nicks at foot of faintly toned backstrip with slight loss, head of backstrip missing small section including first two letters of title, very good
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