When the Bough Breaks, and Other Stories.

Mitchison (Naomi)

Published by Jonathan Cape, 1924

About this Item

FIRST EDITION, attractive frontispiece design (signed 'V.C.' in the block), pencil addition in manuscript to the half-title [by the author?]: '[.Other Stories] of "Old, unhappy, far off things, and battles long ago-"', pp. 318, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip darkened with printed label a little browned and chipped, lean to spine, top edge blue a little faded, other edges toned, free endpapers faintly browned, dustjacket repeating frontispiece design, slightly nicked at extremities, very good. Inscribed by the author, in a playfully acerbic manner, on the flyleaf: 'E. Strauss, an oponent [sic] of all my dearest principles - grr! N.M.M.' The recipient was the psychiatrist Eric Strauss. Strauss was among the contributors (of the chapter on 'Psychology') to 'An Outline for Boys and Girls', edited by Mitchison and published by Gollancz in 1932. He would later treat Evelyn Waugh, his fellow-Catholic (perhaps one of the points on which his and Mitchison's principles departed), for the hallucinatory psychosis that inspired 'the Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold'. Scarce - her second book, and first collection of stories, set (like much of her early work) in Ancient Rome. Seller Inventory # 77299

Bibliographic Details

Title: When the Bough Breaks, and Other Stories.

Publisher: Jonathan Cape

Publication Date: 1924