The Desirable Alien: At Home in Germany.

Hunt (Violet) & Ford Madox Hueffer.

The Desirable Alien: At Home in Germany.

With Preface and Two Additional Chapters by Ford Madox Hueffer.

Description: FIRST EDITION, title printed in blue, foxing to prelims receding into text, the advertisement leaves at rear a little browned and brittle to leading edge, pp. xiii, 327, 32 [ads], crown 8vo, original purple cloth, lettered in gilt to backstrip and upper board, the latter with a gilt-stamped design by Pickford Waller, backstrip faded, a couple of small spots of discolouration to lower board, little rubbed at extremities, t.e.g., endpapers foxed, good

Publication Details: Chatto & Windus, 1913

Notes: Scarce. In addition to his stated contribution, Ford provides lengthy footnotes throughout the text. The pretext of the couple being in Germany was in order for Ford to secure a divorce from his first wife - something that 'probably never happened, but they claimed it had' (ODNB).

Bibliography: (Harvey A40)

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Price: £600

Subject: Modern First Edition

Published Date: 1913

Stock Number: 70828

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