In the Summer House.
New York: Random House, 1954 Stock Code: 124248
Presentation copy
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "I love you very much - and you are very very bright - I wish that I was like you Janie". From the library of the academic and teacher Dr William ("Woods") Shelton Gray, Jr (1926-1993) who was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and received his PhD from the University of Exeter. He established a correspondence with T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden (who dedicated his poem "The Aliens" to him), and a number of other English and American writers and poets. His most intimate correspondent appears to have been Jane's husband Paul Bowles, whom he visited a number of times in Tangier. Presentation copies of this author's works are uncommon.Description
Octavo. Original tan cloth, spine lettered in blue and gold, photographic vignette mounted on front board with blue and gold frame. With the dust jacket.
Illustrations
Illustrated with photographs from the original production.
Condition
An excellent copy in the tanned and lightly marked price-clipped dust jacket with some very minor loss at spine ends.
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