Mary Webb Anthology 1939 Jonathan Cape

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A Mary Webb Anthology Illustrated by Norman Hepple & Rowland Hilder Edited by H.B.L. Webb Jonathan Cape, London, 1939 Printed in Great Britain by Butler and Tanner Ltd., Frome . . Bound by A.W. Bain & Co. Ltd . . Paper Made by John Dickinson and Co. Ltd Blue Cloth hardcover, no dustjacket. Book Condition: Very Good. Edition is not stated. (5.5x8") . Gilt title and tree motif on spine. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked with some dust marking to top edge and a touch of light foxing to endpapers and fore edge. A Very Good+ copy. Bookseller's sticker inside front board: B.H. Blackwell Ltd . . Booksellers . . 48 to 51 Broad Street . . Oxford This selection is made by the author's widower just before his own death. 4 illustrations in colour and many in black and white by Rowland Hilder and Norman Hepple. Published and unpublished work by Mary Webb are woven together in this anthology, which represents every aspect of her achievement. Poems, articles, excerpts from her novels and essays are all included. T are poems which have not previously appeared; and contributions, signed and unsigned, which Mary Webb made to papers like The Spectator, The Nation and The English Review are assembled in book form for the first time. Mary Webb (March 25, 1881 – October 8, 1927), was an English romantic novelist of the early 20th century, read more