BUSSELL, Dorothea. Translate No Further
BUSSELL, Dorothea. Translate No Further. London: Grayson. 1933. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by ‘CM’. A very good copy overall, the cloth a touch discoloured in places, but firm, the binding tight and square. The textblock edges a little spotted but seldom seeping, the contents largely fine. The excellent dust jacket price-clipped with a discount price sticker of 1/- net to spine. Spine a touch faded, corners and tips gently bumped and rubbed but a clean and sharp example.
One of only three novels by Dorothea Bussell (nee Bickerton). Her father was a college master, while her husband, John Garrett Bussell, was a school master and later Captain in the West Sussex Regiment. He was killed in action in Belgium in 1915, leaving Dorothea to raise two children. Inheritance from her parents, her earlier life and her late husband’s pension provided a comfortable life—she had two servants living with her in the 20s. In her mid-thirties, she began a part-time literature course and published a small handful of work in the late 20s and early 30s, including three novels and at least two volumes of poetry, all scarce. This particular novel follows a woman navigating an aggressively jealous lover set in Savernake Forest, not far from where Bussell was born and lived all her life. I can find nothing on the dust jacket designer, but it is sumptuous. Scarce.
BUSSELL, Dorothea. Translate No Further. London: Grayson. 1933. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by ‘CM’. A very good copy overall, the cloth a touch discoloured in places, but firm, the binding tight and square. The textblock edges a little spotted but seldom seeping, the contents largely fine. The excellent dust jacket price-clipped with a discount price sticker of 1/- net to spine. Spine a touch faded, corners and tips gently bumped and rubbed but a clean and sharp example.
One of only three novels by Dorothea Bussell (nee Bickerton). Her father was a college master, while her husband, John Garrett Bussell, was a school master and later Captain in the West Sussex Regiment. He was killed in action in Belgium in 1915, leaving Dorothea to raise two children. Inheritance from her parents, her earlier life and her late husband’s pension provided a comfortable life—she had two servants living with her in the 20s. In her mid-thirties, she began a part-time literature course and published a small handful of work in the late 20s and early 30s, including three novels and at least two volumes of poetry, all scarce. This particular novel follows a woman navigating an aggressively jealous lover set in Savernake Forest, not far from where Bussell was born and lived all her life. I can find nothing on the dust jacket designer, but it is sumptuous. Scarce.
BUSSELL, Dorothea. Translate No Further. London: Grayson. 1933. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by ‘CM’. A very good copy overall, the cloth a touch discoloured in places, but firm, the binding tight and square. The textblock edges a little spotted but seldom seeping, the contents largely fine. The excellent dust jacket price-clipped with a discount price sticker of 1/- net to spine. Spine a touch faded, corners and tips gently bumped and rubbed but a clean and sharp example.
One of only three novels by Dorothea Bussell (nee Bickerton). Her father was a college master, while her husband, John Garrett Bussell, was a school master and later Captain in the West Sussex Regiment. He was killed in action in Belgium in 1915, leaving Dorothea to raise two children. Inheritance from her parents, her earlier life and her late husband’s pension provided a comfortable life—she had two servants living with her in the 20s. In her mid-thirties, she began a part-time literature course and published a small handful of work in the late 20s and early 30s, including three novels and at least two volumes of poetry, all scarce. This particular novel follows a woman navigating an aggressively jealous lover set in Savernake Forest, not far from where Bussell was born and lived all her life. I can find nothing on the dust jacket designer, but it is sumptuous. Scarce.