OLIVIER, Edith. The Love-Child. New York: The Viking Press, 1927. 8°. Frontispiece printed in green, title within green rule border. Original green cloth decorated and lettered in pink and darker green (spine somewhat faded). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, “Dear Cecil [Beaton], with my love, Edith Olivier, Christmas 1927.” With 8 other books by the same author including The Underground River (London, [1928]), As Far as Jane’s Grandmother’s (New York, 1929, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed “To my dear Antisthenes …”, with the author’s bookplate), Mr. Chilvester’s Daughters (New York, 1933, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed to Cecil Beaton) and Mary Magdalen ([London], 1934, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed “To Eileen and Beryl,” with an autograph slip to the same loosely-inserted); with 2 autograph l
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OLIVIER, Edith. The Love-Child. (New York: The Viking Press, 1927). 8°. Frontispiece printed in green, title within green rule border. Original green cloth decorated and lettered in pink and darker green (spine somewhat faded). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, “Dear Cecil [Beaton], with my love, Edith Olivier, Christmas 1927.” With 8 other books by the same author: The Underground River (London, 1928), As Far as Jane’s Grandmother’s (New York, 1929, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed “To my dear Antisthenes …”, with the author’s bookplate), Mr. Chilvester’s Daughters (New York, 1933, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed to Cecil Beaton), Mary Magdalen (London, 1934, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed “To Eileen and Beryl,” with an autograph slip to the same loosely-inserted), Country Moods and Tenses (1941 PRESENTATION COPY), Mildred (1926), The Quest of Joy (N.D.) and Moonrakings: a little book of Wiltshire stories (1928); with 2 autograph letters from Edith Olivier to SIEGFRIED SASSOON, both dated 1930 and opening “My dear Siegfried,” one suggesting that after the success of “The Infantry Officer” he might want to buy a new dressing gown, and describing Cecil Beaton’s housewarming party (“Only Beckford could have rivaled it”); the other bemoaning “the Socialist World” and a meeting with “the Bernard Shaws & the Sidney Webbs”, concluding “My love, Edith.”

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OLIVIER, Edith. The Love-Child. (New York: The Viking Press, 1927). 8°. Frontispiece printed in green, title within green rule border. Original green cloth decorated and lettered in pink and darker green (spine somewhat faded). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, “Dear Cecil [Beaton], with my love, Edith Olivier, Christmas 1927.” With 8 other books by the same author: The Underground River (London, 1928), As Far as Jane’s Grandmother’s (New York, 1929, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed “To my dear Antisthenes …”, with the author’s bookplate), Mr. Chilvester’s Daughters (New York, 1933, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed to Cecil Beaton), Mary Magdalen (London, 1934, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed “To Eileen and Beryl,” with an autograph slip to the same loosely-inserted), Country Moods and Tenses (1941 PRESENTATION COPY), Mildred (1926), The Quest of Joy (N.D.) and Moonrakings: a little book of Wiltshire stories (1928); with 2 autograph letters from Edith Olivier to SIEGFRIED SASSOON, both dated 1930 and opening “My dear Siegfried,” one suggesting that after the success of “The Infantry Officer” he might want to buy a new dressing gown, and describing Cecil Beaton’s housewarming party (“Only Beckford could have rivaled it”); the other bemoaning “the Socialist World” and a meeting with “the Bernard Shaws & the Sidney Webbs”, concluding “My love, Edith.”
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