Annotations by Miles, First Edition (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Signed and inscribed by Susan Miles on the front free endpaper, 'Margaret Thomson, With all good wishes from L S Stebbing's friend, Susan Miles, September 1943'. 54pp. Quarter bound in pale blue cloth over decorated paper-covered boards, red title label on front panel. 8vo. Boards are worn and faded around edges, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, a few marks. Boards a little bowed. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Susan Miles was the pen name of Ursula Wyllie Roberts (1887-1975). The niece of Newlyn School painter, William Titcomb, she published several slim volumes of poetry under that pen name, Annotations being the second, after Dunch (1918). Harold Munro, in his often harsh Some Contemporary Poets (1920) spoke of her poetry positively and Herbert Palmer described her as 'one [of] the most original' in his 1938 study of post-Victorian poetry. As Ursula Roberts she also wrote several pamphlets on feminist themes, including "The Cause of Purity" and "Women's Suffrage". The verse novel, Lettice Delmer, was first published in 1958 and reissued by Persephone Books in 2000. The L S Stebbing referred to in the inscription is likely Lizzie Susan Stebbing, a prominent British philosopher - the first women to hold a philosophy chair in the UK, and first female President of Humanists UK. Stebbing was indeed a friend: she died in the same month as the inscription is dated.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 56pp. 8 inches/ 20.2cm. No dw. Decorative boards, rubbed corners, linen spine. Untrimmed pages. Internally, faint foxing to endpapers, no owner's marks, contents as new. Scarce. 200g. (Poetry, Literature, Women) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Quarter cloth, paper boards. Condition: Good+. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Original quarter grey cloth, blue and orange patterned beige paper boards, red title label to upper board. Edges untrimmed. Darkened, slight warp to boards, wear to corners. Edges browned. Inscribed in blue ink: "Marjorie Wheatley, With all good wishes from the author March 11th 1960," offsetting to feps, else, clean and bright. Good+ A pleasing inscribed copy of Susan Miles' second collection of poems. Under her pseudonym, Ursula Wyllie Roberts (18871975) published eight volumes of poetry and three novels, including her novel in verse, Lettice Delmer (1958). Roberts only using her given name for her 1911 polemic, The Cause of Purity and Women's Suffrage, published by the Church League for Women's Suffrage.