Kay Walters.

Burford (Roger)

Kay Walters.

A Woman of the People.

Description: FIRST EDITION, one or two faint spots to page-borders, pp. 319, crown 8vo, original brown cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and a touch faded, slight lean to spine, a few faint marks to cloth, edges and endpapers lightly spotted, good

Publication Details: Jonathan Cape, 1928

Notes: Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf, at time of publication: 'To Dorothy - with the author's best wishes - always, Roger Burford 28/2/28'.This is the author's first book, and scarce - a novel in a 'realist' vein but with a parade of eccentric characters, whose heroine moves from servitude, to vagrancy, to respectability. The larger part of Burford's writing career, given to detective novels, used the pseudonym 'Roger East', anglicising his middle-name d'Este (an incorporation of his mother's surname), which is also the name his Cambridge-friend Christopher Isherwood gave to the character ...moreInscribed by the author on the flyleaf, at time of publication: 'To Dorothy - with the author's best wishes - always, Roger Burford 28/2/28'.This is the author's first book, and scarce - a novel in a 'realist' vein but with a parade of eccentric characters, whose heroine moves from servitude, to vagrancy, to respectability. The larger part of Burford's writing career, given to detective novels, used the pseudonym 'Roger East', anglicising his middle-name d'Este (an incorporation of his mother's surname), which is also the name his Cambridge-friend Christopher Isherwood gave to the character based on him in his novel 'Lions and Shadows' (wherein Burford's wife Stella, a muralist, appears as Polly). Burford published poetry and enjoyed a long career as a screenwriter. His enthusiasm for the cinema had been the initial basis of his friendship with Isherwood, and it also brought him close to Oswell Blakeston - the two both wrote for 'Close Up', and collaborated on a trio of eccentric detective novels under the name "Simon". HIDE

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