BOWES-LYON, Lillian. Bright Feather Fading (signed)
BOWES-LYON, Lillian. Bright Feather Fading. London: Jonathan Cape. 1936. Thin 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s quarter-blue cloth over yellow boards, lettered in yellow to the spine, and in the yellow and cream dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to front endpaper, “with very best wishes” and dated November 1936. A very good copy, the cloth slightly marked, the titles gently rubbed, but the binding tight and square. The contents clean throughout, a small handful of light spots. The dust jacket unclipped (5s net), Cape-cut, some overall grubbiness, gently bumped with a couple of closed tears.
The author’s second published collection of poems, perhaps most notable of which is ‘Battlefield’, written in response to the death of her brother while serving in the First World War. Many, in fact, are in response to war. Bowes-Lyon was first cousins of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (i.e. the Queen Mother) and was independently wealthy, but had the moral fortitude to task herself with onerous work, first in a medical role at wartime Glamis Castle, and later moving to London to continue poetry, despite a serious genetic illness which caused the amputation of, eventually, her legs. The poems here often quite beautiful. Uncommon in the jacket, especially so inscribed.
BOWES-LYON, Lillian. Bright Feather Fading. London: Jonathan Cape. 1936. Thin 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s quarter-blue cloth over yellow boards, lettered in yellow to the spine, and in the yellow and cream dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to front endpaper, “with very best wishes” and dated November 1936. A very good copy, the cloth slightly marked, the titles gently rubbed, but the binding tight and square. The contents clean throughout, a small handful of light spots. The dust jacket unclipped (5s net), Cape-cut, some overall grubbiness, gently bumped with a couple of closed tears.
The author’s second published collection of poems, perhaps most notable of which is ‘Battlefield’, written in response to the death of her brother while serving in the First World War. Many, in fact, are in response to war. Bowes-Lyon was first cousins of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (i.e. the Queen Mother) and was independently wealthy, but had the moral fortitude to task herself with onerous work, first in a medical role at wartime Glamis Castle, and later moving to London to continue poetry, despite a serious genetic illness which caused the amputation of, eventually, her legs. The poems here often quite beautiful. Uncommon in the jacket, especially so inscribed.
BOWES-LYON, Lillian. Bright Feather Fading. London: Jonathan Cape. 1936. Thin 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s quarter-blue cloth over yellow boards, lettered in yellow to the spine, and in the yellow and cream dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to front endpaper, “with very best wishes” and dated November 1936. A very good copy, the cloth slightly marked, the titles gently rubbed, but the binding tight and square. The contents clean throughout, a small handful of light spots. The dust jacket unclipped (5s net), Cape-cut, some overall grubbiness, gently bumped with a couple of closed tears.
The author’s second published collection of poems, perhaps most notable of which is ‘Battlefield’, written in response to the death of her brother while serving in the First World War. Many, in fact, are in response to war. Bowes-Lyon was first cousins of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (i.e. the Queen Mother) and was independently wealthy, but had the moral fortitude to task herself with onerous work, first in a medical role at wartime Glamis Castle, and later moving to London to continue poetry, despite a serious genetic illness which caused the amputation of, eventually, her legs. The poems here often quite beautiful. Uncommon in the jacket, especially so inscribed.