blind men crossing bridge de miles susan (7 résultats)

Presumed First Edition. Octavo, original orange cloth over boards, stamped in black, deckle edge, white dust jacket printed in black and orange. "A narrative of passing generations, with all the profound drama of youth growing old, of old age holding out frail hands to the new-born." Very Good, boards slightly bowed, light shelf wear, slight fading to cloth at edges, in Good dust jacket, edge-chipped, some creasing, abrasions and darkening to spine.

Hardcover. Etat : Used: Very Good. 1st ed. Cloth, 853pp, spine slightly faded, else vg.

HARDBACK W/DUST JACKET. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. PREVIOUS OWNER INSCRIPTION - 853 PAGES - LIGHT GREY DJ W/WEAR AROUND EDGES, SMALL PIECES MISSING FROM UPPER AND LOWER PART OF SPINE, BLACK LETTERING, WITH WEAR.

Etat : VG. London 1934 1st edition (stated) Constable. Fiction. Hardcover. Octavo, 853pp., blue cloth. VG, light cover wear in Fair DJ, spine faded, intact but chipped along folds and frayed on spine ends.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Navy covers that are rippled around the edges. Gilt lettering to spine. Inscription on ffep, otherwise a very clean copy internally.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First American edition from British sheets. Octavo. 853pp. A little foxing on the endpapers and toning on the boards, near fine in slightly smudged and spine-toned else near fine dust jacket. A long novel dedicated to Katherine Mansfield. The author married the "socialist, pacifist" Rev. William Corbett. In 1912 she wrote *The Cause of Purity and Women's Suffrage* She wrote several volumes of verse and three novels including *Lettice Delmer* [see Blain. *Feminist Companion to Literature in English,* p. 738].

typed fair copy, rectos only, a few diacritics added in manuscript, pp. [iii], 312, 4to, bound in half calf with brown cloth sides, a little wear to extremities, good. Inscribed on the initial blank: 'Katharine Baverstock, With love from Ursula ("Susan Miles")'. The recipient was a librarian, active, as was the author, in the cause of Women's Suffrage. The first section of Miles's vast 1934 novel, which was published by Constable - the title for the larger work adapted to 'Blind Men Crossing a Bridge' (this drawn from the Toyokuni woodblock, used ekphrastically in the narrative), and with a printed dedication to Katherine Mansfield that is not present here. The author's note preceding the text shows that it was evidently conceived originally as a trilogy of individual works (this the first), before the decision to combine its parts into a single volume. The novel is scarce in any form. J.D. Beresford in the TLS praised it as 'unusual and powerful [.], inspired by a lofty ambition' and bearing 'signs of genius', comparing it to the work of E.M. Forster, Dorothy M. Richardson, and Virginia Woolf - the latter, however, dismissed it as 'immense long totally absurd' in her diary for August 1934.