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A Letter to a Grandfather. The Hogarth Letters No. 7.

Presentation copy of Rebecca West's A Letter to a Grandfather

Rebecca WestDame Cecily Isabel Fairfield, 1892–1983

First edition. Small 8vo. 45pp. Cream stapled wraps in yapp edges, printed in black. Cover design by John Banting. The Hogarth Letters No. 7, of a series of 12. 1/2500 copies published. Penned amidst the Great Depression, the last volume in the series traces the progressive degeneration of the notion of Providence through the ages.
Presentation copy warmly inscribed by the Author to Bethel Solomons (1885–1965). Born to a prominent Jewish family, the recipient was a founding member and first president of the Liberal Synagogue in Dublin. A doctor by profession, he was Master of the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin and subsequently served as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. Light edge-wear and age toning to wraps, fore-edges slightly foxed, else Fine.
[Woolmer 333; Hutchinson A12]
special feature
presentation copy
edition
first edition
format
pamphlet
publisher
Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press
published in
London
publication year
1933
ISBN
not assigned
pagination
45 pages
genre
philosophy
language
English
binding state
original binding
condition
near fine
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ref.H3U 743