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HARTLEY, L. P. (1895-1972). Night Fears and Other Stories. London & New York: Putnam's, 1924. 8°. Original green cloth faded at spine, partly unopened. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To Lady Ottoline Morrell from Leslie, with my love June 12th 1924.'
HARTLEY, L. P. Simonetta Perkins. London & New York: Putnam's, 1925. 8°. Original decorated paper boards, green cloth spine. Author's second book and first novel, dedicated to David Cecil. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Lady Ottoline Morrell from Leslie with my love 29th October, 1925'.
HARTLEY, L. P. The Killing Bottle. London & New York: Putnam, 1932. 8°. Original green cloth. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'O.M. from L.P.H. March 28th 1933.'
In his biography of L. P. Hartley, Foreign Country, Adrian Wright writes: 'Ottoline, twenty-two years his senior, assumed such importance in his life not only because she was the first literary chatelaine who opened her arms to him, but because she almost certainly became a mother figure to him ... Ottoline brought into Hartley's life an exoticism, otherworldliness and grandeur that was irresistible ... In March 1923 he confessed that if their discussion about mysticism had lasted any longer, he would have had "an ecstasy"' (p.64, p.75). He was to send her his poems in manuscript, and maintained a correspondence with her when he lived in Venice. The Morrells visited him in Portofino Mare in 1927. (3)
HARTLEY, L. P. Simonetta Perkins. London & New York: Putnam's, 1925. 8°. Original decorated paper boards, green cloth spine. Author's second book and first novel, dedicated to David Cecil. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Lady Ottoline Morrell from Leslie with my love 29th October, 1925'.
HARTLEY, L. P. The Killing Bottle. London & New York: Putnam, 1932. 8°. Original green cloth. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'O.M. from L.P.H. March 28th 1933.'
In his biography of L. P. Hartley, Foreign Country, Adrian Wright writes: 'Ottoline, twenty-two years his senior, assumed such importance in his life not only because she was the first literary chatelaine who opened her arms to him, but because she almost certainly became a mother figure to him ... Ottoline brought into Hartley's life an exoticism, otherworldliness and grandeur that was irresistible ... In March 1923 he confessed that if their discussion about mysticism had lasted any longer, he would have had "an ecstasy"' (p.64, p.75). He was to send her his poems in manuscript, and maintained a correspondence with her when he lived in Venice. The Morrells visited him in Portofino Mare in 1927. (3)
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