HAMILTON, Marguerite. Red Shoes for Nancy. London: Constable. 1956. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s dark blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket which goes uncredited. A very good copy. The cloth just slightly dust-marked at extremities, the binding tight and gently rolled. Top edge dust-marked and the contents with light scattered foxing to endpapers and prelims. Ink ownership inscription of Scottish Roman Catholic author, Bruce Marshall to front endpaper, else clean. The dust jacket unclipped (13/6 net) and complete, with a few short nicks and closed tears, some mild rubbing.
A harrowing true-life story which follows the author’s own daughter, Nancy, as she endures lymphohemangioma, a rare and debilitating blood disease. Diagnosed in very early childhood, Nancy underwent multiple-limb amputation to slow the disease, but eventually succumbed in 1956, aged fourteen. International news and media outlets extensively covered the story and Nancy and her mother became emblematic of the mystery of Christian suffering. Originally published in the US—for they were Americans—by Lippincott in 1955, both that edition and this British first sold well and remain out-of-print. Scarce thus.
HAMILTON, Marguerite. Red Shoes for Nancy. London: Constable. 1956. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s dark blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket which goes uncredited. A very good copy. The cloth just slightly dust-marked at extremities, the binding tight and gently rolled. Top edge dust-marked and the contents with light scattered foxing to endpapers and prelims. Ink ownership inscription of Scottish Roman Catholic author, Bruce Marshall to front endpaper, else clean. The dust jacket unclipped (13/6 net) and complete, with a few short nicks and closed tears, some mild rubbing.
A harrowing true-life story which follows the author’s own daughter, Nancy, as she endures lymphohemangioma, a rare and debilitating blood disease. Diagnosed in very early childhood, Nancy underwent multiple-limb amputation to slow the disease, but eventually succumbed in 1956, aged fourteen. International news and media outlets extensively covered the story and Nancy and her mother became emblematic of the mystery of Christian suffering. Originally published in the US—for they were Americans—by Lippincott in 1955, both that edition and this British first sold well and remain out-of-print. Scarce thus.
