Ultramarine. Jonathan Cape, 1933. 8vo, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO JOHN SOMMERFIELD AND FAMILY ("For John & Stella & Peter from Malcolm"), original blue cloth, supplied dust-jacket, jacket frayed and chipped with loss at foot of spine, wear to cloth; Under the Volcano. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947, FIRST EDITION, publisher's grey cloth, DUST-JACKET, jacket frayed and chipped with loss at head of spine; another copy, reproduction dust-jacket; Under the Volcano. Jonathan Cape, 1947, first English edition, publisher's grey cloth; John Davenport, Hugh Sykes & Michael Redgrave, eds. Cambridge Poetry 1930. Hogarth Press, 1930, David Worth (book plate); Edward J. O'Brien, ed. The Best British Short Stories 1931. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1931, OWNERSHIP INSCRIPTION OF JAN GABRIAL, LOWRY'S FIRST WIFE, DUST-JACKET; Life and Letters: the Florin Magazine. Vol. 10, no. 55, July 1934; and three others (10)

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John Sommerfield, the novelist and Communist, was a close friend of Lowry from the early 1930s. Stella was his first wife and Peter their son.