Iron and Smoke

KAYE-SMITH, Sheila

Edité par Cassell, London, 1928

A propos de cet article

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED SLIP LAID IN. 8vo, pp. [xiii], 315, [1]. Original blue buckram, spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Pushing to spine ends. Signed slip of paper laid in with B. D Maurer's loose WWI-themed bookplate, NY bookshop label to rear pastedown. Else, clean and tight. In the original buff dust jacket, lettered and illustrated in black: flaps separated at joints, creased at edges, short closed tear to bottom joint of front panel. Housed in a custom-made slipcase: green buckram, black morocco title panel to spine, lettered in gilt: spine and top-edge faded, title label rubbed. Very good/ good/ good+ A cherished first edition copy of Sheila Kaye-Smith's 1928 novel of female friendship, "in which is advanced the theme of love of woman for woman transcending the complexes of sex," set in Sussex on the cusp of WWI; unusual, especially in the original dust jacket with a signed slip laid in, and its own bespoke slipcase. Sheila Kaye-Smith (1887-1956) was a prolific English author, best known for her novels set in rural Sussex (as here, with a Yorkshire nod) and Kent. She found popularity in the US too, where there were questions about her identity, apparently: according to R M Gay writing in The Atlantic, "every critic has spoken of the 'masculine detachment' or 'stern virility' of her art, which once made some suspect that she was really a man writing under a pseudonym.".

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Iron and Smoke
• Éditeur: Cassell, London
• Date de parution: 1928
• Reliure: Cloth
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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  • Modern Firsts