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The Underground Woman.
by BOYLE, Kay
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.,, 1975. First edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed on the half-title "January 1975. With love, admiration, and tenderness, to Decca & Bob, who dream, & who give the dream an enduring reality. Kay. San Francisco". This is a great association copy. The recipients are Jessica Mitford and her husband Robert Treuhaft, to whom the themes and incidents of the novel touch close. The novel, whose protagonist emerges from imprisonment for political activism to find that her house has been taken over by her daughter's commune, is based on harrowing events in Boyle's own life involving the Lyman Family (the blurb refers to its leader as 'a sinister Manson-like figure'). Treuhaft was Boyle's lawyer, and played a direct role in resolving the problem, transferring ownership of the property and evicting the squatters. Octavo. Original black cloth-backed grey boards, pine lettered in silver. With dust jacket. Three bumps with tears to spine head, internally fresh. A very good copy in very good jacket, light wear to corners, a little toned, unclipped.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 149337
- Title
- The Underground Woman.
- Author
- BOYLE, Kay
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.,
- Date Published
- 1975
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Blurb
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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- Inscribed
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- Jacket
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- Bumps
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- First Edition
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- Association Copy
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