Dilly by Daisy Newman (3 results)

Condition: Good. 1954. First Printed. 254 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Light sunning to spine and edges. Foxing overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Pre-Publication Copy. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp. 256. Signed presentation copy: "Carl & Margaret. Dick & Daisy. January 6, 1955". A novel, set in "the serene atmosphere of the New England Quaker community from which Dilly draws her strength." Original publisher's cloth binding in dark red, lettered black at spine. Dust jacket in salmon pink lettered black with an illustration of a a couple in silhouette against hello priceo half-title page:"To be published under the title the autumn brightness the McMillan Company New York February 21, 1955. Please do not circulate before February 21." Very good in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket slightly used with small loss at lower corners. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1954. True first edition [1954] of the author's second novel, involving a widow in New York who finds companionship and love in an unlikely place in an unlikely time. Light red cloth, 255 pages plus publisher's advertisement, illustrated dustjacket. Minimal edgewear, minor bumping to rear corners, good hinges, firm binding, age-toned endpapers (from the binder's glue), tiny gift inscription on front free endpaper, pages otherwise very clean and unmarked. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped and has some edgewear and minor chipping to the corners and spine ends, sunned spine, little paper loss. Includes a typed slip mounted on the half title stating "To be published under the title THE AUTUMN'S BRIGHTNESS, The Macmillan Company, New York, February 1955". . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.