Tigers Are Better-Looking with a Selection from The Left Bank.

RHYS, Jean.

$45.00

Item Number: 145495

London: Andre Deutsch Limited, 1968.

First edition of this collection incorporating the author’s earliest and most mature short stories. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities. Jacket design by Barbara Brown.

Tigers Are Better-Looking incorporates selections from Jean Rhys's first book of stories, The Left Bank, published in 1927, and later stories written after 1939. Writing for the New York Times, A. Alvarez called the collection "extraordinary" and referred to Rhys as “quite simply, the best living English novelist".