Lytton Strachey

BEERBOHM, Max

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1943

Beschreibung

12mo. Stiff lavender wrappers. 27pp. Very good. Tight and internally quite nice, with just light wear and age toning to outer wrappers. First edition of the English humorist and essayist's tribute to fellow writer and critic Strachey (1880-1932), one of the founders of the Bloomsbury Group and best known for his 1918 book "Eminent Victorians." This copy bears a choice presentation inscription in miniscule pencil at upper right of front flyleaf: "Roger Senhouse / 27.6.43 / to / Dorothy Bussy / with love, 1945." Senhouse (1899-1970), publisher and translator and Bloomsbury Group hanger-on, had a notorious sado-masochistic affair with Strachey near the end of Strachey's life -- and recipient Dorothy Bussy (1865-1960) was Strachey's sister, a translator and novelist and also member of the Bloomsbury Group. All in all a remarkable copy, inscribed by the last lover of a Bloomsbury Group founder, himself a kinda-sorta member, to his lover's sister, also a Bloomsbury Group member. Presumably June 6, 1943 was the date of Beerbohm's Rede Lecture and 1945 the year that Senhouse inscribed this copy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 48672

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Lytton Strachey

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Erscheinungsdatum: 1943

Einband: Paperback

Auflage: 1. Auflage