Development Preface Amy Lowell by Bryher (1 results)

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, from the English sheets, spotting to prelims, pp. xvi, 187, crown 8vo, original burgundy cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and a little rubbed at ends, edges and endpapers a little spotted, good. Lowell's Preface, appearing for the first time here (added to the second English edition in the same year), concludes in adulatory terms: 'No better study of the growth of the artist's mind has been written, I think'. Bryher had published a 'Critical Appreciation of Amy Lowell' two years earlier. The book takes its epigraph from the author's partner, the poet H.D.; a semi-autobiographical narrative, continued by 'Two Selves' in 1923 (a work given the provisional title of 'Adventure' at the close here).…