BENSON, Stella. Tobit Transplanted
London: Macmillan. 1931. First edition. An attractive example of arguably Stella Benson’s most famous work—though none of her work is especially remembered today. Printed also in the US under the title, The Faraway Bride. Benson was a suffragist and contemporary of Winifred Holtby, Virginia Woolf, Vera Brittain, and Naomi Mitchison. The novel itself retells the Apocyphra, likening the exiled Jews in Tobit to the exiled White Russians amid the Bolshevik surge.
8vo. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth with bright gilt lettering to the spine, in the striking dust jacket designed by ‘K’. A very good book, the cloth clean, the binding tight and square, the corners and tips a trifle bumped. A couple of very faint spots to the textblock edges and very, very occasionally within at the margins, but usually fine. With The Book Society ex libris (unmarked) to the front endpaper, made discreet by the front flap. The dust jacket very good, unclipped (7s. 6d. net) and complete, a little dulled to the spine panel and extremities, with a handful of small bumps, nicks and instances of rubbing across the edges, predominantly to the top edges. A very good copy overall.
London: Macmillan. 1931. First edition. An attractive example of arguably Stella Benson’s most famous work—though none of her work is especially remembered today. Printed also in the US under the title, The Faraway Bride. Benson was a suffragist and contemporary of Winifred Holtby, Virginia Woolf, Vera Brittain, and Naomi Mitchison. The novel itself retells the Apocyphra, likening the exiled Jews in Tobit to the exiled White Russians amid the Bolshevik surge.
8vo. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth with bright gilt lettering to the spine, in the striking dust jacket designed by ‘K’. A very good book, the cloth clean, the binding tight and square, the corners and tips a trifle bumped. A couple of very faint spots to the textblock edges and very, very occasionally within at the margins, but usually fine. With The Book Society ex libris (unmarked) to the front endpaper, made discreet by the front flap. The dust jacket very good, unclipped (7s. 6d. net) and complete, a little dulled to the spine panel and extremities, with a handful of small bumps, nicks and instances of rubbing across the edges, predominantly to the top edges. A very good copy overall.
London: Macmillan. 1931. First edition. An attractive example of arguably Stella Benson’s most famous work—though none of her work is especially remembered today. Printed also in the US under the title, The Faraway Bride. Benson was a suffragist and contemporary of Winifred Holtby, Virginia Woolf, Vera Brittain, and Naomi Mitchison. The novel itself retells the Apocyphra, likening the exiled Jews in Tobit to the exiled White Russians amid the Bolshevik surge.
8vo. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth with bright gilt lettering to the spine, in the striking dust jacket designed by ‘K’. A very good book, the cloth clean, the binding tight and square, the corners and tips a trifle bumped. A couple of very faint spots to the textblock edges and very, very occasionally within at the margins, but usually fine. With The Book Society ex libris (unmarked) to the front endpaper, made discreet by the front flap. The dust jacket very good, unclipped (7s. 6d. net) and complete, a little dulled to the spine panel and extremities, with a handful of small bumps, nicks and instances of rubbing across the edges, predominantly to the top edges. A very good copy overall.