Moore olive pseud for constance vaughan (2 Ergebnisse)

FIRST EDITION, faint foxing to prelims with the odd recurrence at opening and close of text, pp. 283, crown 8vo, original black cloth, vertical rule blind-stamped to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, slight lean to spine, some light wear and fading, free endpapers browned, a couple of pencil notes to rear pastedown, ticket removal at foot of same, good. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, referring to a character from the novel: 'To Mrs Lahr, though she mustn't take too seriously all that Uller has to say on marriage! Olive Moore, 3.4.32'. Also signed by the author to the title-page. The recipient was Esther Lahr (née Argeband), the wife of bookseller and publisher Charles Lahr, whose Blue Moon Press published Moore's work in the year of this gift - his 'Progressive Bookshop' on Red Lion Street was a meeting-point for authors, including Moore. A scarce book (only four locations for the first edition on COPAC) 'Spleen' is perhaps the most powerful statement by this neglected and elusive novelist, the narrative concerning a woman in self-imposed exile on an Italian island following the birth of a child with deformed feet.…

FIRST EDITION, frontispiece showing sculpture of author by Sava Botzaris, some very faint spotting to opening leaves, small mark below colophon at rear, pp. [viii], 207, crown 8vo, original quarter green cloth with sides of Cockerell marbled paper in shades of green, black and gold, backstrip lettered in a darker green, dustjacket with a nick at head of front panel and very short closed tear at head of rear panel, crack to surface at margin of front panel and some very faint blotching to backstrip panel, very good. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'To Arnold Ovenden, Olive Moore'. Presentation copies of her work are rare. Moore is nothing less than forthright - the rear flap offers the term 'pungent'. The volume gathers contents of her notebooks, ranging from the aphoristic to essays on 'Woman as Uncreative Artist' and 'Further Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine' - her meditation on Lawrence (reprinted here because, she asserts in a short Foreword, 'I am sick and tired of being quoted and plagiarised without acknowledgement').…