Author: BEERBOHM, Max
Title: Lytton Strachey
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1943. Paperback. 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. .
Keywords: Literary Biography
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Title: Lytton Strachey
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1943. Paperback. 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. .
Keywords: Literary Biography
Price: US$ 295.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 48672
- Book number: 48672
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