Product Description
First edition.
Spine slightly toned, very near fine lacking the dust jacket.
Elaborately and facetiously Inscribed by Powell: "To Henry Morgan.
from his idol Dawn Powell (Mrs.
Humphrey Ward).
Paris, October 4, 1876.
'Would that us two were marrying[?]'.
" On the rear free endpaper Powell has used the entire page to pencil in the names of the "Cast" (or characters in the book), for what reason is unclear.
It is likely that the recipient was Powell's close friend (and occasional antagonist) Edmund Wilson: in some of their elaborate correspondence Powell portrayed and signed herself as the 19th Century novelist, Mrs.
Humphrey Ward.
An amusing and intriguing inscription in one of the author's scarcest titles.
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