KAVAN, Anna. A Charmed Circle. London: Peter Owen. 1994. 8vo. First edition thus; first printed 1929. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in silver gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A very good or better copy. The boards clean and bright, the binding tight and gently rolled. The contents fine but for a small handful of pencil annotations to margins. The dust jacket unclipped (£15.75) and complete, fine despite some red transfer to rear panel at verso, not showing externally.
The author’s first novel, originally published by Gollancz in 1929 under her first married name, Helen Ferguson. Though a far cry from her weirdly surreal novels which have garnered a fervently cultish following, this is still a strong debut with the same sense of escapism her later works are often infused with. Several Kavan novels have been republished by that mightiest of twentieth century British independent publishers, Peter Owen.
KAVAN, Anna. A Charmed Circle. London: Peter Owen. 1994. 8vo. First edition thus; first printed 1929. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in silver gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A very good or better copy. The boards clean and bright, the binding tight and gently rolled. The contents fine but for a small handful of pencil annotations to margins. The dust jacket unclipped (£15.75) and complete, fine despite some red transfer to rear panel at verso, not showing externally.
The author’s first novel, originally published by Gollancz in 1929 under her first married name, Helen Ferguson. Though a far cry from her weirdly surreal novels which have garnered a fervently cultish following, this is still a strong debut with the same sense of escapism her later works are often infused with. Several Kavan novels have been republished by that mightiest of twentieth century British independent publishers, Peter Owen.
