Publication details: Jonathan Cape,1938,
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Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'To Betty, with love from Stevie, Chirstmas, 1947'. The recipient was her friend, the novelist and biographer Betty Miller - the two were part of a 'sort of Hampstead set' (McBrien & Barbera, 'Stevie Smith', p. 156) that included Inez Holden, Cicely Mackworth, Naomi Lewis, Marghanita Laski, and Kay Dick, but Miller and Smith fell out a couple of years after this inscription, following the publication of a thinly-veiled depiction of Miller and her children (one of them being Jonathan Miller, theatre director and member of 'Beyond the Fringe') drawn from a family holiday with Smith in tow. This is a record of a significant association, before that betrayal.
FIRST EDITION, several line-drawings, some full-page, by the author, pp. [ii], 77, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, top edge blue, others roughtrimmed, slight crease to top corner of rear free endpaper, dustjacket with the author's drawings to front panel, backstrip panel browned and slightly chipped at head, faintly browned to borders, very good
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