"FOR MY DEAREST AVA”
Black and white line drawings of trees.
First Edition. 8vo. [242 x 161 x 17 mm]. 114, [2] pp. Bound in the publisher's black and grey cloth, the front cover blocked with trees in blind, the spine lettered in white with a blue flower. In the original dark blue dust-wrapper decorated and lettered in light blue and white. (A little frayed at the edges).
New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc, 1951
Preceded by the London edition of 1950. A very good copy inscribed in ink on the front endleaf: "For my dearest Ava with best love from Edith". There is a pencil note that the recipient was Ava Astor, which could have been Ava Lowle Willing (1868-1958) who married John Jacob "Jack" Astor IV (and then Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale), or their daughter Ava (1902-1956), who married successively Prince Sergei Obolensky, Raimund von Hofmannsthal, Philip Harding and David Pleydell-Bouverie.
Stock no. ebc7971
"FOR MY DEAREST AVA”
Black and white line drawings of trees.
First Edition. 8vo. [242 x 161 x 17 mm]. 114, [2] pp. Bound in the publisher's black and grey cloth, the front cover blocked with trees in blind, the spine lettered in white with a blue flower. In the original dark blue dust-wrapper decorated and lettered in light blue and white. (A little frayed at the edges).
New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc, 1951
Preceded by the London edition of 1950. A very good copy inscribed in ink on the front endleaf: "For my dearest Ava with best love from Edith". There is a pencil note that the recipient was Ava Astor, which could have been Ava Lowle Willing (1868-1958) who married John Jacob "Jack" Astor IV (and then Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale), or their daughter Ava (1902-1956), who married successively Prince Sergei Obolensky, Raimund von Hofmannsthal, Philip Harding and David Pleydell-Bouverie.
Stock no. ebc7971
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