Product Description
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED SLIP LAID IN.
8vo, pp.
[xiii], 315, [1].
Original blue buckram, spine lettered and ruled in gilt.
Pushing to spine ends.
Signed slip of paper laid in with B.
D Maurer's loose WWI-themed bookplate, NY bookshop label to rear pastedown.
Else, clean and tight.
In the original buff dust jacket, lettered and illustrated in black: flaps separated at joints, creased at edges, short closed tear to bottom joint of front panel.
Housed in a custom-made slipcase: green buckram, black morocco title panel to spine, lettered in gilt: spine and top-edge faded, title label rubbed.
Very good/ good/ good+ A cherished first edition copy of Sheila Kaye-Smith's 1928 novel of female friendship, "in which is advanced the theme of love of woman for woman transcending the complexes of sex," set in Sussex on the cusp of WWI; unusual, especially in the original dust jacket with a signed slip laid in, and its own bespoke slipcase.
Sheila Kaye-Smith (1887-1956) was a prolific English author, best known for her novels set in rural Sussex (as here, with a Yorkshire nod) and Kent.
She found popularity in the US too, where there were questions about her identity, apparently: according to R M Gay writing in The Atlantic, "every critic has spoken of the 'masculine detachment' or 'stern virility' of her art, which once made some suspect that she was really a man writing under a pseudonym.
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