Price: £50
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1974
Stock Number: 68877
Shreve (Susan Richards)
A Fortunate Madness.
Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. [vi], 212, crown 8vo, original grey cloth, backstrip and upper board lettered in black and with wreath decorations to both stamped in metallic pink, slight lean to spine, top edge pink, a few faint tiny spots to free endpapers, dustjacket price-clipped and a little nicked and rubbed, good
Publication Details: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974
Notes: Inscribed by the author on the title-page: 'For John Baxter - The only writer I've met whose madness makes absoulte sense. With admiration and affection, Susan, November 28, 1975'. The author's first novel, a study of bereavement and insanity in the experience of the 'faltering, gifted young woman' that is its protagonist. The author's acquaintance with Baxter was presumably made at the University of Virginia - her alma mater, where Baxter was a visiting professor around this time.
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