SIR WALTER SCOTT: THE GREAT UNKNOWN. VOLUME I 1771-1821.
Language: English
Published by Hamish Hamilton,, London,, 1970
- First Edition
- Signed
- Softcover
- Used
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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Volume one only. 8vo. pp. xxvi, 759, lxxvii. 16pp. illustrations. ISBN 0241017610 Original publishers green cloth lettered gilt on spine. Orange dust jacket with illustration lettered black on spine and upper cover. 13pp., recto only, consisting of Lane's handwritten reference notes covering both volumes of the work loosely inserted. A lengthy typed signed letter loosely inserted from Rev Jack A. Bramley to Margaret Lane addressed from 50 High Street, Southwick, Hants dated 2/11/70 and consisting of about 1,530 words in which he thanks Lane for her sympathetic newspaper article and radio broadcast about Scott. He then discusses Scott's work: his songs and ballads, his use of the Scottish accent, his appeal south of the border, the historical novels, the lives of Scott, his journal, and his greatest novels and historical romances with references to Trevelyan, Trevor Roper, J. C. Corson, Leavis, Compton Mackenzie, Donald Davie and John Buchan. Handwritten signed postcard addressed from Michael ? to Miss Margaret Lane, Blackbridge House, Beaulieu, Hants. Inghilterra dated Set. 25 postmarked 1970 and consisting of about 100 words in which he writes about his holiday and asks why Selina [Hastings] cancelled her trip. Newspaper cutting of a review of the book by C. P. Snow taken from The Financial Times, 1 Nov 1970 loosely inserted includes some passages underlined in Lane's hand. Margaret Lane (1907-1994) journalist, biographer (Beatrix Potter, Samuel Johnson in particular) and novelist. She married firstly Edgar Wallace's son and secondly Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon with whom she had two daughters, the eldest being the writer Selina Hastings. Rev J. A. Bramley wrote a piece for the Hibbert Journal on 'The Challenges of D. H. Lawrence, April 1960. Lower corner of one page (p. 189) creased. A few small tears to edges of dust jacket, otherwise very good. Slight wear to dust jacket, otherwise very good. …
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- Title
- SIR WALTER SCOTT: THE GREAT UNKNOWN. VOLUME I 1771-1821.
- Author
- JOHNSON, Edgar. Margaret Lane. J. A. Bramley.
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton,, London,
- Publication year
- 1970
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0241017610
- ISBN 13
- 9780241017616
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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