Die by Hamilton Cicely (1 results)

First edition thus, first impression, review copy with the Cape presentation slip loosely inserted. Lest Ye Die, revised from Hamilton's earlier work Theodore Savage (1922), was published simultaneously in the US. Her most scathing novel about the brutality of war, it presents the UK in a state of collapse as a consequence of chemical warfare and advanced airpower. Cicely Hamilton (1872-1952) was a co-founder of the Women Writers' Suffrage League. In 1909, she wrote A Pageant of Great Women, which became a popular pro-suffrage spectacle staged across Britain. A skilled political satirist, she worked as a playwright, novelist, and journalist, and wrote in favour of feminist and pacifist causes. This is an important example of interwar speculative fiction and is notably uncommon on the market. Octavo. Original pink and green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Minor bumps to corners, front free endpaper sometime excised, faint foxing to outer leaves; jacket unclipped, spine panel browned, edges creased, tears and a couple of chips to fold ends, front panel remaining bright: a very good copy in like jacket.