Price: £50
Subject: Modern Illustrated
Published Date: 1948
Stock Number: 69447
(Buckland Wright.) MANNES (Marya)
Message from a Stranger.
Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. 232, crown 8vo, original red cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, very faint pen-mark at head of backstrip and faint ring-marks to upper board, free endpapers gently toned, Buckland-Wright dustjacket with very shallow chipping at extremities, very good
Publication Details: Hamish Hamilton, 1948
Notes: The author's first novel, narrated by the recently deceased Olivia - set in New York City, where the author was born and lived, her early career largely consisting of journalism, including a spell as an editor at Vogue magazine. The British edition is made desirable by the presence of the striking John Buckland-Wright dustjacket, not used for its US counterpart.
Bibliography: (Reid C5)
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