Below the Salt.

First and sole edition, uncommon, of this collection of stories by the American actress, writer, and feminist Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952), under the pseudonym C. E. Raimond. After advancing her career in London theatres, "in the 1890s, Robins' incipient feminism had been fuelled by witnessing the exploitation of actresses by actor-managers", and so she began taking up feminist issues in her writing (ODNB). Despite pressure from her publishers to take advantage of her fame as an actress, she insisted on publishing under a pseudonym. Her best-known play, Votes for Women! (1907), has been credited with inaugurating suffrage drama. Robins counted literary figures such as Oscar Wilde, John Masefield, and Virginia and Leonard Woolf, as well as politicians like Sir Edward Grey, among her friends. Octavo. With 28 pages of publisher's advertisements at the rear. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in silver, title in black and vignette in silver to front cover, publisher's device in black to rear cover, edges untrimmed, a couple leaves unopened. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper "A. G., Sinaia, 1906". Spine cocked and browned, rubbing to extremities, a few marks to sides, endpapers foxed. A very good copy, uncommon in any condition.…