On Writing (Signed copy)

This copy signed by Stephen Tennant from Wilsford Manor

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Printing Details

First edition, third impression. Hardback in dustwrapper. 21.5 × 14.5cm, xxvi + 126pp.

This copy has been signed by Stephen Tennant from Wilsford Manor in his typically florid style. The inscription reads "for Martin Breese from Stephen Tennant, March 1964. 'nous n'egalons pas nes pensees' Bousset. Wilsford Manor, Salisbury", with him adding "Know thyself" to the top of the page.

First published in 1949, this is a a collection of essays and letters. Willa Cather writes about her own fiction and that of Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, and Katherine Mansfield, among others. She concludes, "Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all—no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself—a game of make-believe, of re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it."

Condition

The book itself is in very good condition, there's a little age-toning to the pages but they remain clean and the binding is secure. The dustwrapper has a small hole to the spine and some light loss to the corners and spine ends but it has not been price-clipped and is now within a protective sleeve.