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A posthumous collection of stories. Her work was admired by the Woolfs, whose Hogarth Press published her novel 'The Rector's Daughter', as well as E.M. Forster, Rosamond Lehmann, John Masefield (whose obituary note for The Times never reached print), et al. The present work cites on its front flap the approval of no less an authority on the macabre than M.R. James, who submits that 'the stories in this volume which introduce the supernatural commend themselves to me very strongly'. Some of the stories draw on Mayor's acting background, the profession she gravitated towards following graduation from Newnham College, Cambridge.The gift inscription is presumably contemporary: 'Lily, in memory of the Author'; not itself signed, it would be reasonable to suppose it was from someone close to Mayor.
FIRST EDITION, a few small spots to borders of half-title and final page of text, pp. v, 322, crown 8vo, original salmon-pink cloth, the upper board and backstrip lettered in dark blue, the upper board with a band of dust-darkening at head, a few small spots to edges and borders of free endpapers, gift inscription to flyleaf (see below), dustjacket faintly browned, light chipping to extremities, very good
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