Anny: A life of Anne Thackeray Ritchie
by GARNETT, Henrietta; [Valerie GROSVENOR MYER]
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
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About This Item
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Large 8vo, incl. b/w sketches and plates. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Spine ends bruised, top edge toned. Inscribed by Garnett in blue biro to ffep: "Valerie, with love from, Henrietta Garnett", gently toned. Colour postcard addressed to Grosvenor Myers laid in. Clean, tight and bright. In the original illustrated dust jacket: light edgewear and creasing. Near fine/ near fine
"Born with ink in her veins – her illustrious literary lineage stretched back several generations on both her paternal and maternal sides," here, Henrietta Garnett (1945-2019) "continued a distinguished tradition of family biography: Ritchie was the sister-in-law of Henrietta's great-grandfather Sir Leslie Stephen and the indomitable "Aunt Anny" immortalised by Virginia Woolf as Mrs Hilberry in her 1919 novel Night and Day". (Beechey, 2019).
Garnett's inscribee, Valerie Grosvenor Myer (1935-2007) was a novelist and journalist, university teacher and editor (who had been supervised at Cambridge by Q D Leavis).
James Beechey (2019) Henrietta Garnett Obituary, The Guardian
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- Quair Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2749
- Title
- Anny: A life of Anne Thackeray Ritchie
- Author
- GARNETT, Henrietta; [Valerie GROSVENOR MYER]
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2004
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Signed & Association Copies;
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