RATHBONE, Irene. The Seeds of Time. London: Faber and Faber. 1952. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by ’W’. Printed dedication to Storm Jameson. A very good copy, the cloth clean, though with a dent to the front board upper edge, small stain to lower board, and a very faint vertical crease to the spine. The binding tight and square, the contents mostly clean throughout, some offsetting and scattered foxing to endpapers. The dust jacket price-clipped, small nick to the front panel top edge, else a sharp copy.
A highly political novel that drew comparisons to Eliot’s Middlemarch on publication. Rathbone was the lovestruck partner of Richard Aldington who, after the publication of his magnum opus, Death of a Hero (1929) sent Rathbone into raptures. She wrote about her own wartime experiences in novel form in her own opus, We That Were Young (1932)—with the aid of Aldington. They had an affair which started in the Côte d'Azur but their relationship was a strained and brief one. Rathbone was also a close friend of Storm Jameson, who she dedicated this work to after her help in editing the manuscript.
RATHBONE, Irene. The Seeds of Time. London: Faber and Faber. 1952. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by ’W’. Printed dedication to Storm Jameson. A very good copy, the cloth clean, though with a dent to the front board upper edge, small stain to lower board, and a very faint vertical crease to the spine. The binding tight and square, the contents mostly clean throughout, some offsetting and scattered foxing to endpapers. The dust jacket price-clipped, small nick to the front panel top edge, else a sharp copy.
A highly political novel that drew comparisons to Eliot’s Middlemarch on publication. Rathbone was the lovestruck partner of Richard Aldington who, after the publication of his magnum opus, Death of a Hero (1929) sent Rathbone into raptures. She wrote about her own wartime experiences in novel form in her own opus, We That Were Young (1932)—with the aid of Aldington. They had an affair which started in the Côte d'Azur but their relationship was a strained and brief one. Rathbone was also a close friend of Storm Jameson, who she dedicated this work to after her help in editing the manuscript.
