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Beowulf: Roman d'une maison de th� dans Londres bombard�. Pr�face d'Adrienne Monnier. Traduit par H�l�ne Malvin.
by BRYHER; MONNIER, Adrienne (Preface); MALVIN, H�l�ne
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About This Item
Paris: Mercure de France, 1948. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, 1 of 100: out of sequence, unnumbered. In French. 8vo, pp. 222. Buff wrappers, lettered in red and black. Edges untrimmed. Tanned, losses to spine ends, edges and text block tanned, pages friable, short closed tear to leading edge of first page with attendant dirty finger print. POI to ffep, occasional pen scoring to Monnier's preface and first page, front hinge tender, spine starting in a couple of places. A good+ copy of Bryher's wartime novel. Unusual. Jisc LHD lists three copies (BL, Bodleian and NLS). Although originally written in English, the French edition is the first edition. Indeed, Beowulf didn't appear in English until 1956, when it was published in North America by Pantheon Books (see our copy below). A paperback edition was issued in 2020 by Schaffner Press. This edition, like the French edition of Paris 1900 (see above), unites Bryher and Monnier, two significant, if often less visible, queer modernists, who were close friends. Its printed dedication reads: "For Sylvia [Beach] and Adrienne who I thought of so often during the years of separation that they seemed with me". Monnier describes Beowulf as "un petit classique". Set in London during the Blitz, it centres on the lives that intersect through the Warming Pan tearoom, run by Selina and Angelina.
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2459
- Title
- Beowulf: Roman d'une maison de th� dans Londres bombard�. Pr�face d'Adrienne Monnier. Traduit par H�l�ne Malvin.
- Author
- BRYHER; MONNIER, Adrienne (Preface); MALVIN, H�l�ne
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Mercure de France
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1948
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- Modern Firsts;
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