Rare

Bryher, ( Pseud : Annie Winifred Ellerman ) ~ Civilians

Sole UK Printing : Pool, Territet: 1927

4to., integrated blue paper wraps printed in black with titles to upper cover and spine; publisher’s advertisement ‘Pool is a Commercial Enterprise and will consider experimental and distinguished manuscripts on the usual terms’ to the lower cover; large publisher’s woodcut device to title; The BOOK sunned to spine with a small split at head; spotting, particularly to the edges, endpapers and prelims due to the quality of the paper stock used. A Very Good++ copy of a work seldom found in unrestored condition. Housed in a custom-made flapcase. First edition and sole printing of the author’s scarce fourth novel, of which we are assured that ‘the characters and incidents in this story are NOT fictitious’ (p. [ix]). The book was the only work of Bryher’s to be published by her own film and publishing company, The Pool Group. Bryher was the pen name of Annie Winifred Ellerman, a remarkable woman and daughter of the Ellerman ship-owning family who, during the 1920s in Paris, used her fortune to help to finance the careers of many struggling writers living in the city. Among those who benefitted from her help were James Joyce and Edith Sitwell. Along with her lover Hilda Doolitle and the author Kenneth Macpherson, she founded the magazine Close Up, and from her home in Switzerland she also helped over 100 jews evacuate from Nazi Germany during the first few years of the Second World War. Rare in such condition.

BINDING: Softcover
CONDITION: Very Good++