Fourteen to Forty-eight A Diary in Verse

Lawrence, Margery (Foreword by Shane Leslie)

Published by London Robert Hale Limited 1949, 1949

About this Item

First edition. 84 pages. Author's copy, inscribed in blue ink to the front pastedown: "Twentieth book published. Verse.", with the photograph from the dust jacket pasted to the front endpaper opposite and additional inscription: "Published before Xmas. 1950 Photograph taken in 1948, used as book jacket to "Fourteen to forty-eight." Margery Lawrence". The book is bound in hard-wearing dark blue cloth with matching blue top-stain to the text block and a brown faux leather spine label, lettered and decorated in gilt. The binding is firm, the cloth is lightly rubbed and marked, the spine a little faded and the title label chipped. The text block is slightly foxed, marked and age toned. An essential book for those wishing to know Lawrence better, a collection of autobiographical poems covering her life up until the death of her husband in 1948 to whom the book is dedicated. Though it is far from being a tribute to him, aside from the final poems, as she asserts in the introductory Note: "an over-large number of the verses are concerned with men, either as flirts, friends or flames. Well, I have always preferred men to women as companions; I still do so, quite unashamedly, and I suspect I always shall. And I suggest that if the vast number of reasonably attractive women published their diaries and if those diaries were written as frankly as mine those diaries would be fully as preoccupied with men, their interest in them or their attitude towards them, as this of mine!". Seller Inventory # 6634

Bibliographic Details

Title: Fourteen to Forty-eight A Diary in Verse

Publisher: London Robert Hale Limited 1949

Publication Date: 1949

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition