Sinclair widdemer margaret (1 Ergebnisse)

FIRST EDITION, pp. 19-30 creased, the last few of those leaves with some light spots, pp. 319, crown 8vo, original dark green cloth, lettered in red to upper board and backstrip within a border stamped in same, a little rubbed at extremities, the edges toned, good. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf, to a fellow novelist: 'For May Sinclair, with gratitude for having written what she has, from Margaret Widdemer'. Sinclair was then perhaps at the zenith of her fame, having published the well-received 'Life and Death of Harriett Frean'; Widdemer herself was on an upwards trajectory as both novelist and poet, having won the Pulitzer Prize in respect of the latter in 1919. The present work, in which a carved wooden image, brought back from Armenia by Judson Gaylord, begins to exert an influence over the lives of his family and their relations (and rivals) the Westerns, has elements of Sinclair's mastery of psychological suspense in a domestic setting. In her later exposition of her craft, 'Do You Want to Write?', Widdemer continued to praise her predecessor, identifying Sinclair as a modern author who retains enough of the 'old way' to be instructive, recommending the novel 'Mary Olivier' in particular. An excellent association copy.…