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STRACHEY, G. Lytton (1880-1932). Landmarks in French Literature. London: Williams and Norgate, [n.d.]. 8°. Original green cloth (upper hinges broken). FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, PRESENTATION COPY to Ottoline Morrell, inscribed 'A madame la marquise - Hommage de l'auteur Jan. 1912'.
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium. LYTTON STRACHEY (1880-1932) One of the central figures in the Bloomsbury group, Lytton Strachey met Ottoline Morrell in 1910, and they were soon very close. She remembered the impression he made in 1911: 'It is hard to realize that this tall, solemn, lanky, cadaverous man, with his rather unpleasant appearance, looking indeed far older than he is, is a combination of frivolity, love of indecency, mixed up with a rigid intellectual integrity.' (Early Memoirs, pp.214-15). During the First World War, Strachey was among the conscientious objectors nominally helping to farm at Garsington, and he attended Bertrand Russell's trial with Ottoline. For weeks at a time, hers was the hand that fed him, and Strachey could not resist biting it in hypocritical letters to many of his friends. Nonetheless, she remained loyal to him and pained to hear of his death.
STRACHEY, G. Lytton (1880-1932). Landmarks in French Literature. London: Williams and Norgate, [n.d.]. 8°. Original green cloth (upper hinges broken). FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, PRESENTATION COPY to Ottoline Morrell, inscribed 'A madame la marquise - Hommage de l'auteur Jan. 1912'.

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STRACHEY, G. Lytton (1880-1932). Landmarks in French Literature. London: Williams and Norgate, [n.d.]. 8°. Original green cloth (upper hinges broken). FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, PRESENTATION COPY to Ottoline Morrell, inscribed 'A madame la marquise - Hommage de l'auteur Jan. 1912'.
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