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Victorine ( Signed First U. K. Edition )
by Maude Hutchins
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Media, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: Neville Spearman, 1959. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. Signed by Author. Hardcover/ DJ (has price in English coinage- 13 s. 6 d.), 191 pages, 8 x 5 1/4"". Book is Fine, DJ is VG to Fine condition. Assume First UK Edition- copyright page states title ""was first published in 1959"" by Spearman, no note of subsequent printings. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by author (full name) on 1st blank page ""For Shirley Sizer From Maude Hutchins"". Same page has small 1 1/2"" x 3"" printed label pasted in: ""Not for Sale / Sample Complete Copy"" (other terms ""Proof Copy"" & ""Manuscript"" are pencilled out). Colorful red, white, blue DJ w/ title repeated 4 times shows little use: only lightest edge wear & a bit of sun to spine. Youthful author portrait & short bio. on back. DJ displays extremely well. Blue cloth binding excellent- clean & square. No bumps, rubs, sun, fray, etc. Gold spine lettering crisp & intact. Front endpapers each have sm., light 2"" x 2"" discolor where newspaper book review (for another of her books) was laid in. This is minor & does not affect inscription or signature. Text otherwise tight, bright, clean, unmarked- maybe just a trace of even toning. NOT ex library. Overall excellent, well preserved copy.
Synopsis
Maude Phelps McVeigh Hutchins (1899—1991) was born in Long Island, New York. She received a B.F.A from the Yale School of Fine Arts in 1926. In 1921 she married Robert Maynard Hutchins, the youngest president of the University of Chicago, and had three children. She was the author of several books, including Blood on the Dove , Love Is Pie , Honey on the Moon , and A Diary of Love , and co-wrote and illustrated Diagrammatics with Mortimer Adler. After she divorced Robert in 1948, Maude moved to Southport, Connecticut. She died on March 28, 1991, in Fairfield, Connecticut. Terry Castle, essayist and scholar, teaches at Stanford University and is the author of several books of literary criticism. She recently edited The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall. Her essays appear regularly in the Atlantic, the New Republic, and the London Review of Books .
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- Bookseller
- EDM Book Loft
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 411
- Title
- Victorine ( Signed First U. K. Edition )
- Author
- Maude Hutchins
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Neville Spearman
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
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