[CORRESPONDENCE; LITERATURE] (ASSOCIATION COPY) [Letters Trilogy] Letters to a Friend 1950-1952; Last Letters to a Friend 1952-1958; Letters to a Sister.
Language: English
Published by William Collins Sons & Co, London, 1961, 1962, 1964.
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB
AbeBooks seller since February 15, 2006
Condition: Used - Very good
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First Editions. Three Volumes. 22 cm.; 382 pp., 288 pp., 352 pp. Bound in original cloth with gilt-stamped spines. Moderate shelf wear to binding edges and toned textblock edges. Condition: Very Good. Original dust jackets included, in Very Good condition. Small tears to spine edges with chips to top edge of third volume. Toned edges. With Association Materials, including a laid-in ALS dated 1939 on a stamped postcard addressed to D. George, the pen name of Daniel George Bunting (1890-1967), who was a literary critic and publisher’s reader. Bunting authored numerous titles, including All in a Maze (1938), which he wrote with Rose Macauley’s assistance. Also includes the publisher’s compliments card. Dame Rose Macaulay was one of the most accomplished and unconventional British women writers of the first half of the twentieth century. Written during the final decade of her life, the correspondence traces Macaulay's intellectual and spiritual life after the Second World War. Letters to her sister additionally preserve the private, familial side of the celebrated author. All three volumes were edited posthumously by Constance Babington Smith, Macaulay's cousin and later biographer, whose extensive surviving papers demonstrate the extraordinary documentary effort that went into preserving Macaulay's literary legacy.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- [CORRESPONDENCE; LITERATURE] (ASSOCIATION COPY) [Letters Trilogy] Letters to a Friend 1950-1952; Last Letters to a Friend 1952-1958; Letters to a Sister.
- Author
- MACAULAY, Rose; Edited by Constance Babington Smith.
- Publisher
- William Collins Sons & Co, London, 1961, 1962, 1964.
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Cloth
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Catalogue 3: More Than a Woman Selected Books and Ephemera, 1784-1993, Literature, Women Authors and Women's Issues
Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB
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