Spleen.
Moore (Olive, pseud. for Constance Vaughan)
Sold by Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Add to basketSold by Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since July 8, 1998
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketFIRST EDITION, faint foxing to prelims with the odd recurrence at opening and close of text, pp. 283, crown 8vo, original black cloth, vertical rule blind-stamped to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, slight lean to spine, some light wear and fading, free endpapers browned, a couple of pencil notes to rear pastedown, ticket removal at foot of same, good. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, referring to a character from the novel: 'To Mrs Lahr, though she mustn't take too seriously all that Uller has to say on marriage! Olive Moore, 3.4.32'. Also signed by the author to the title-page. The recipient was Esther Lahr (née Argeband), the wife of bookseller and publisher Charles Lahr, whose Blue Moon Press published Moore's work in the year of this gift - his 'Progressive Bookshop' on Red Lion Street was a meeting-point for authors, including Moore. A scarce book (only four locations for the first edition on COPAC) 'Spleen' is perhaps the most powerful statement by this neglected and elusive novelist, the narrative concerning a woman in self-imposed exile on an Italian island following the birth of a child with deformed feet.
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