Book Description

FIRST EDITION,
Dealer Notes
Inscribed by the author on the title-page: ‘For John Baxter - The only writer I’ve met whose madness makes absoulte sense. With admiration and affection, Susan, November 28, 1975’.
The author’s first novel, a study of bereavement and insanity in the experience of the ‘faltering, gifted young woman’ that is its protagonist. The author’s acquaintance with Baxter was presumably made at the University of Virginia - her alma mater, where Baxter was a visiting professor around this time.
Author Shreve (Susan Richards)
Date 1974
Binding original grey cloth, backstrip and upper board lettered in black with wreath decorations, slight lean to spine, top edge pink, dustjacket price-clipped and a little nicked and rubbed,
Publisher Houghton Mifflin,
Condition good
Pages pp. [vi], 212, crown 8vo,

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