STONE, Grace Zaring. All the Daughters of Music. London: Cobden Sanderson. 1932. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in black to the spine panel, in the dust jacket whose design goes sadly uncredited. A superior copy, the cloth clean and bright, the spine tips very gently bumped, but the binding tight and square. The contents clean and fine but for a handful of minor marks and singular spots. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net), very gently bumped to extremities with two closed tears to spine head and tail.
The first British edition of the New York author’s fourth novel, published first in America one year prior under the title ‘The Almond Tree’. This a quite skilfully written novel set against ‘the friction of time’, in which three no longer young sisters are reunited ‘in a backwater where the swift currents of life have washed them’, and a daughter of one who vows to lead a different life. Stone, who lived to be one-hundred, wrote a dozen or so novels, many with the similarly high levels of character study and social development, and often under the pseudonym Ethel Vance, partially due to her anti-Nazi wartime novels, her own daughter living in Germany at the time. This first British edition scarce from an ever-attractive Cobden Sanderson production.
STONE, Grace Zaring. All the Daughters of Music. London: Cobden Sanderson. 1932. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in black to the spine panel, in the dust jacket whose design goes sadly uncredited. A superior copy, the cloth clean and bright, the spine tips very gently bumped, but the binding tight and square. The contents clean and fine but for a handful of minor marks and singular spots. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net), very gently bumped to extremities with two closed tears to spine head and tail.
The first British edition of the New York author’s fourth novel, published first in America one year prior under the title ‘The Almond Tree’. This a quite skilfully written novel set against ‘the friction of time’, in which three no longer young sisters are reunited ‘in a backwater where the swift currents of life have washed them’, and a daughter of one who vows to lead a different life. Stone, who lived to be one-hundred, wrote a dozen or so novels, many with the similarly high levels of character study and social development, and often under the pseudonym Ethel Vance, partially due to her anti-Nazi wartime novels, her own daughter living in Germany at the time. This first British edition scarce from an ever-attractive Cobden Sanderson production.
