Price: £200
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1953
Stock Number: 72008
Laski (Marghanita)
The Victorian Chaise-Longue.
Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. 159, crown 8vo, original quarter cream boards with marbled sides, backstrip lettered in gilt and blind (against a gilt ground), lean to spine, a few small spots to top edge, dustjacket a little chipped and nicked with sunned backstrip panel, very good
Publication Details: Cresset Press, 1953
Notes: Inscribed by the author on the dedication-page, beneath the original printed dedication to John Hayward, declaring that 'I wish I had given this to you, Betty, the more since you read it more than anyone in the way I wanted it read, Marghanita, xi. 53'. The latter recipient was Irish author, Betty Miller. Laski's work is a 'study in fear', whose protagonist 'falls asleep on the Victorian chaise-longue and opens her eyes to a phantasmagoria of horror'.
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