Through Beds of Stone (Signed copy)

M L Haskins (Minnie Louise Haskins)

Published by Macmillan, 1928

About this Item

First edition. Hardback, bound in red cloth with gilt titling to spine. 20 × 13.5cm, 515pp. Signed and dedicated by M L Haskins to the ffep, "To Mr & Mrs Rowland, with grateful thanks for a lovely holiday and much kindness, M L Haskins, August 1929", and with a newspaper clipping about Minnie Haskins' poem read by King George VI in his Christmas Speech of 1939. M L Haskins' first novel (of only two) is a semi-autobiographical story of Margaret Meredith who steers a course through the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She moves to London to become a writer and helps with the poor of Lambeth as indeed, the author did. Minnie Louise Haskins (1875-1957) was a poet and sociologist. Her poem The Gate of the Year (also known as God Knows) was written in 1908 and privately published. King George VI quoted from it in his 1939 Christmas Speech, apparently having been brought to his attention by Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II). The poem remained a favourite with the Royal Family and was engraved on stone plaques and fixed to the gates of the King George VI Memorial Chapel. Condition: A rare title, especially signed, this copy is in good condition. The boards are dulled and rubbed, with light foxing to the prelims and tanning to the page edges. The hinges are lightly cracked (the rear worse than the front) but secure and the book remains in strong readable condition. Seller Inventory # 015732

Bibliographic Details

Title: Through Beds of Stone (Signed copy)

Publisher: Macmillan

Publication Date: 1928

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition