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Published in 2016 by Notting Hill Editions Ltd Widworthy Barton Honiton Devon EX14 9JS Designed by FLOK Design, Berlin, Germany Typeset by CB editions, London Printed and bound by Memminger MedienCentrum, Memmingen, Germany Introduction © 2016 by Valerie Grove The essays in this book have been reproduced by kind permission of the J. B. Priestley Estate: ‘On Beginning’, ‘A Coincidence’ and ‘All About Ourselves’ from I For One, 1923; ‘Having Covered the Card Table’ from Open House, 1927; ‘First Snow’ from Apes and Angels, 1928; ‘Carless at Last’ and ‘My Forchern’ from The Balconinny, 1929; ‘Dissolution in Haymarket’, ‘On the Moors’, ‘Strange Encounter’ and ‘Different Inside’ from Self-Selected Essays, 1932; ‘The Reunion Battalion Dinner’ from English Journey, 1934; ‘Wednesday 5 June 1940’ and ‘Sunday 9 June 1940’ from Postscripts, 1940; ‘Eros and Logos’, ‘On Education’, ‘Another Revolution’ and ‘Televiewing’ from Thoughts in the Wilderness, 1957; ‘Women Don’t Run the Country’ from the Saturday Evening Post, 1964; ‘The Moments’, ‘Tobacco’, and ‘Giving Up Conferences’ from Moments and Other Pieces, 1966; ‘Old Age’, ‘Happiness’ and ‘On Hating Airports’ from Instead of the Trees, 1977; ‘Critique of 1972’ from Priestley’s Wars, 2008. All rights reserved. Frontispiece image: J. B. Priestley Archive, Special Collections, University of Bradford The right of J. B. Priestley to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-1-910749-18-0 www.nottinghilleditions.com
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Contents – Introduction – ix – On Beginning – 1 – A Coincidence – 8 – All About Ourselves – 14 – Having Covered the Card Table – 20 – First Snow – 26 – Carless at Last – 32 – My Forchern – 38 – Dissolution in Haymarket – 45 – On the Moors – 51

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Published in 2016 by Notting Hill Editions Ltd Widworthy Barton Honiton Devon EX14 9JS

Designed by FLOK Design, Berlin, Germany Typeset by CB editions, London

Printed and bound by Memminger MedienCentrum, Memmingen, Germany

Introduction © 2016 by Valerie Grove The essays in this book have been reproduced by kind permission of the J. B. Priestley Estate: ‘On Beginning’, ‘A Coincidence’ and ‘All About Ourselves’ from I For One, 1923; ‘Having Covered the Card Table’ from Open House, 1927; ‘First Snow’ from Apes and Angels, 1928; ‘Carless at Last’ and ‘My Forchern’ from The Balconinny, 1929; ‘Dissolution in Haymarket’, ‘On the Moors’, ‘Strange Encounter’ and ‘Different Inside’ from Self-Selected Essays, 1932; ‘The Reunion Battalion Dinner’ from English Journey, 1934; ‘Wednesday 5 June 1940’ and ‘Sunday 9 June 1940’ from Postscripts, 1940; ‘Eros and Logos’, ‘On Education’, ‘Another Revolution’ and ‘Televiewing’ from Thoughts in the Wilderness, 1957; ‘Women Don’t Run the Country’ from the Saturday Evening Post, 1964; ‘The Moments’, ‘Tobacco’, and ‘Giving Up Conferences’ from Moments and Other Pieces, 1966; ‘Old Age’, ‘Happiness’ and ‘On Hating Airports’ from Instead of the Trees, 1977; ‘Critique of 1972’ from Priestley’s Wars, 2008.

All rights reserved.

Frontispiece image: J. B. Priestley Archive, Special Collections, University of Bradford

The right of J. B. Priestley to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998.

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978-1-910749-18-0

www.nottinghilleditions.com

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