Peter Davies, London., 1951. First edition. Octavo. pp [iv], 260. A novel.Contemporary (1951) ownership signature on front free endpaper. Small Johannesburg bookseller's ticket on front pastedown. Slight fading to head and tail of spine. Very good in very good dustwrapper slightly marked at tail of spine and with several small chips and nicks. Scarce.

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ELIZABETH TAYLOR (1912–1975) was born into a middle-class family in Berkshire, England. She held a variety of positions, including librarian and governess, before marrying a businessman in 1936. Nine years later, her first novel, At Mrs. Lippincote’s , appeared. She would go on to publish eleven more novels, including Angel (available as an NYRB Classic), four collections of short stories (many of which originally appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s , and other magazines), and a children’s book, Mossy Trotter , while living with her husband and two children in Buckinghamshire. Long championed by Ivy Compton-Burnett, Barbara Pym, Robert Liddell, Kingsley Amis, and Elizabeth Jane Howard, Taylor’s novels and stories have been the basis for a number of films, including Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005), starring Joan Plowright, and François Ozon’s Angel (2007). In 2013 NYRB Classics will publish a new selection of Taylor’s short stories. CALEB CRAIN is the author of American Sympathy , a study of friendship between men in early American literature. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books , and n+1 . His novel Necessary Errors will be published in 2013.

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Bookseller: Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TAYLOREL014699
Title: A Game of Hide and Seek.
Author: TAYLOR, Elizabeth
Book Condition: Used
Publisher: Peter Davies, London.
Date Published: 1951

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