Vanessa: A Novel [FIRST EDITION]

Walpole, Hugh

Published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, New York, 1933

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Fine condition dark blue cloth boards with a silver rectangular front cover decoration and silver spine lettering. Includes Preliminary Page List of Books by Hugh Walpole; Dedication; A Prefatory Letter by Hugh Walpole; and Preliminary Page Quote by Sir Thomas Malory. Illustrated with a fine condition rear section foldout (equivalent to five attached pages) consisting of The Family Tree of the Herries. All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the binding is exceedingly tight and square. The copyright page states: "First Edition." "The forth and final volume of the Herries Chronicles, described as "incomparably the best" in The Daily Telegraph is a love story of "effortless brilliance (Observer) which starts with the triumph of Judith Paris's hundredth birthday in the 1870s and moves to the tragic disillusionment of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Set predominantly amidst the grandeur of the lake district landscape, it tells the passionate and unforgettable story of Vanessa, Judith's granddaughter and her n'er-do-well cousin Benjie, whom she had sworn in childhood never to betray." - from Goodreads dot com general review. "My Dear Erik, I take the greatest pleasure in dedication this final novel in the Herries series to yourself because during those last years our friendship has been one of the best things I possess. With this pleasure I must contrast a very rear sense of loss. I am, as I write the last lines of Vanessa, saying good-bye to work that has been, for the last six years, my constant preoccupation. I canot interes my readers that Judith, Benjie, Vanessa and the others have appeared to me such real and constant friends, but how, as they vanish doewn the wind, I feel a true and personal loneliness. But I should like to thank those readers who have also found them friends, and to urge upon one or two critics that long novels are no new thing, and have been always in the tradition of the English novel. Yet more boldly I would say that in this present case these four Herries novels are intended to be read as one novel, and I hope that some day there will be a reader who will both live long enough and be idle enough to read them so! But one ambition of mine is, I find, already realized. Some of those who love and know Cumberland have found in these pages a tribute to that country which has pleased them. Affectionately, Hugh Walpole", from the Prefatory Letter. Seller Inventory # 004326

Bibliographic Details

Title: Vanessa: A Novel [FIRST EDITION]

Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, New York

Publication Date: 1933

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Edition: 1st Edition