HOLTBY, Winifred. Letters to a Friend
HOLTBY, Winifred. Letters to a Friend. Edited by Alice Holtby and Jean McWilliam. London: Collins. 1937. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s cream cloth lettered in green to the spine, in the dust jacket. A very bright and attractive copy, the cloth boards clean and bright, the contents clean and fine throughout, the frontispiece portrait of Holtby quite stiff and a trifle pulled at gutter, but firm and fine. A couple of tiny marks to the top edge also. The dust jacket unclipped (10s 6d net), gently nicked and rubbed at the corners, spine tips and, less so, the the joints. A very faint and tiny water stain to the foot of the spine, but not affecting the cloth or contents, and barely discernible in truth. A handful of tiny closed tears, but a handsome example.
A posthumously published collection of letters from a young Holtby, covering 1920-26, to her great friend, Jean McWilliam; the pair wrote to one another as ‘Celia’ (Holtby) and ‘Rosalind’ (McWilliam) from Shakespeare’s mutually devoted heroines in ‘As You Like It’. Holtby met McWilliam while at the WAAC, and the letters reveal Holtby’s friendships with Vera Brittain, Margaret Kennedy, and Stella Benson, and tell of the unsettled postwar society. ‘We see her making her name as a writer, lecturing for the League of Nations Union, working with Lady Rhondda for Time and Tide, advocating peace and progress from platforms both orthodox and unconventional’. Uncommon.
HOLTBY, Winifred. Letters to a Friend. Edited by Alice Holtby and Jean McWilliam. London: Collins. 1937. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s cream cloth lettered in green to the spine, in the dust jacket. A very bright and attractive copy, the cloth boards clean and bright, the contents clean and fine throughout, the frontispiece portrait of Holtby quite stiff and a trifle pulled at gutter, but firm and fine. A couple of tiny marks to the top edge also. The dust jacket unclipped (10s 6d net), gently nicked and rubbed at the corners, spine tips and, less so, the the joints. A very faint and tiny water stain to the foot of the spine, but not affecting the cloth or contents, and barely discernible in truth. A handful of tiny closed tears, but a handsome example.
A posthumously published collection of letters from a young Holtby, covering 1920-26, to her great friend, Jean McWilliam; the pair wrote to one another as ‘Celia’ (Holtby) and ‘Rosalind’ (McWilliam) from Shakespeare’s mutually devoted heroines in ‘As You Like It’. Holtby met McWilliam while at the WAAC, and the letters reveal Holtby’s friendships with Vera Brittain, Margaret Kennedy, and Stella Benson, and tell of the unsettled postwar society. ‘We see her making her name as a writer, lecturing for the League of Nations Union, working with Lady Rhondda for Time and Tide, advocating peace and progress from platforms both orthodox and unconventional’. Uncommon.
HOLTBY, Winifred. Letters to a Friend. Edited by Alice Holtby and Jean McWilliam. London: Collins. 1937. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s cream cloth lettered in green to the spine, in the dust jacket. A very bright and attractive copy, the cloth boards clean and bright, the contents clean and fine throughout, the frontispiece portrait of Holtby quite stiff and a trifle pulled at gutter, but firm and fine. A couple of tiny marks to the top edge also. The dust jacket unclipped (10s 6d net), gently nicked and rubbed at the corners, spine tips and, less so, the the joints. A very faint and tiny water stain to the foot of the spine, but not affecting the cloth or contents, and barely discernible in truth. A handful of tiny closed tears, but a handsome example.
A posthumously published collection of letters from a young Holtby, covering 1920-26, to her great friend, Jean McWilliam; the pair wrote to one another as ‘Celia’ (Holtby) and ‘Rosalind’ (McWilliam) from Shakespeare’s mutually devoted heroines in ‘As You Like It’. Holtby met McWilliam while at the WAAC, and the letters reveal Holtby’s friendships with Vera Brittain, Margaret Kennedy, and Stella Benson, and tell of the unsettled postwar society. ‘We see her making her name as a writer, lecturing for the League of Nations Union, working with Lady Rhondda for Time and Tide, advocating peace and progress from platforms both orthodox and unconventional’. Uncommon.