The Inn of Dreams.

Custance (Olive)

Edité par John Lane The Bodley Head, 1911

FIRST EDITION, pp. viii, 74, [2, ads], foolscap 8vo, original quarter pale-grey cloth with mid-grey boards (the author's initial stamped in green at corners), the darkened backstrip with printed label slightly browned and rubbed gentle rubbing at extremities with corners slightly pushed, edges untrimmed with free endpapers very faintly toned, in a custom morocco and cloth dropback box bearing the bookplate of Barry Humphries to inside, very good. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf, using her nickname: 'Jack Scott-Gatty, from Opal Douglas', but misdating it by a decade to Dec. 28th 1901. Custance's fourth and final collection of verse, with, Sarah Parker describes in the ODNB, an 'emphasis on boy-muses such as Hylas and St Sebastian' as well as 'poems addressed Custance's feelings of entrapment, dejection, and her religious beliefs (for example, in "The Prisoner of God")' - seen as deriving from Lord Douglas's conversion to to Catholicism in 1911. Custance, whose early poetry had appeared in 'The Yellow Book', married Lord Alfred Douglas in 1902 - her earlier relationships included a 'brief love affair' with the symbolist poet Renée Vivien (ODNB). Subsequently the copy of comedian, actor and bibliophile, Barry Humphries. N° de réf. du vendeur 79456

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Titre : The Inn of Dreams.
Éditeur : John Lane The Bodley Head
Date d'édition : 1911