Signed 1St Edition

Margery Lawrence Step Light, Lady signed 1942 UK 1st author's own copy

Margery Lawrence Step Light, Lady signed 1942 UK 1st author's own copy
Margery Lawrence Step Light, Lady signed 1942 UK 1st author's own copy
Margery Lawrence Step Light, Lady signed 1942 UK 1st author's own copy
Margery Lawrence Step Light, Lady signed 1942 UK 1st author's own copy
Margery Lawrence Step Light, Lady signed 1942 UK 1st author's own copy

Margery Lawrence Step Light, Lady signed 1942 UK 1st author's own copy
Margery Lawrence - Step Light, Lady - 1942 UK. Author's copy, inscribed in blue ink to the front endpaper: "Margery Lawrence Published 1942 Sixteenth book (Novel)", and additionally inscribed in the year of publication to the half-title page: "To Arthur With my love, as always Margery 1942", the recipient was her husband Arthur Edward Towle who died in 1948. The book is bound in hard-wearing dark blue cloth with matching blue top-stain to the text block and a brown faux leather spine label, lettered and decorated in gilt. The binding is firm, the cloth is lightly rubbed and marked, the spine a little faded. The text block is slightly foxed, marked and age toned. A novel set in France just before WW2 and partly written before the conflict began, so filled with an atmosphere of tension, euphoria and foreboding.

It describes the lives of a troupe of left-wing dancers living communally in rural Brittany, led by the charismatic and scandalous AnnaLise. The group are disturbed by the arrival of her daughter from England, left as a baby with her conservative, donnish father, who she abandoned for life as an artist with her lover Etienne.


Margery Lawrence Step Light, Lady signed 1942 UK 1st author's own copy