Dorothy Bowers | Postscript to Poison, 1938 [together with:] Shadows Before, 1939

Dorothy Bowers

Two volumes, comprising:

Postscript to Poison. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1938, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ("For my dear Molly, | in memory of 'Clarendon' - Sept. - Dec. 1929. | with the Author's love & best wishes. | Dorothy Bowers. | August 1938") on preliminary blank, 8vo, original light blue cloth lettered in black, DUST-JACKET, minor spotting, binding faded on spine, slightly soiled dust-jacket with professionally restored sections to spine;

Shadows Before. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original red cloth lettered in gilt, DUST-JACKET, some browning and soiling, numerical stamp to front fixed endpaper, some waterstaining, binding slightly skewed and soiled, spotting and soiling to dust-jacket, numbers written on dust-jacket spine, extremities of dust-jacket frayed

PROVENANCE

The Alexis Galanos Collection