Colours of Vaud

BRYHER; BACON, Paul (DJ design)

Published by A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book/ Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, New York, 1969

About this Item

FIRST US EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, with TLS & hand-written postcard. 8vo. Quarter green cloth, spine lettered and decorated in black and green, grey boards with black-stamped decoration to upper board. Green top edge (mostly faded). Pushing to spine ends, bands of sunning to board edges, dint to bottom edge. Signed by Bryher to ffep with "Best wishes from", else, clean and tight. Two-page, folded TLS and hand-written postcard, featuring puffins, laid in. In Paul Bacon's original illustrated dust jacket: spine gently darkened, gently toned and soiled, edges creased, closed tear to rear panel. Still, a lovely, tight copy of Bryher's final novel. Unusual, especially signed and with a TLS and hand-written postcard. Seemingly Mr J H Fall's copy, the addressee of both the TLS and postcard. On Villa Kenwin-headed paper, and written shortly after its publication, Bryher discusses her novel, advising Fall that, "You never need feel you have to like the book." The letter also covered her liking of Akenside, the change in approach to the T.L.S. and that she'd take In Aleppo Once "if it seems at all interesting". Dated three years later, the postcard briefly outlines the novelist's travel plans: from a "wonderful week in the Scillies" she returned to London and then on to Kenwin: even in her seventies, the novelist continued to travel. Bryher had deep emotional ties to both Switzerland, the location of her Bauhaus-style home, Villa Kenwin, and the Isles of Scilly, where she owned a daffodil farm and from which she had borrowed her adopted name. Perhaps indicating a note of formality, both documents are signed, "Winifred Bryher". Bryher (and H.D.) had long used Bumpus for sourcing books: perhaps Fall was a bookseller?

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Colours of Vaud
• Publisher: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book/ Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, New York
• Publication Date: 1969
• Binding: Quarter cloth, paper boards
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed & Association Copies
  • Modern Firsts