BOTTOME, Phyllis

The Kingfisher

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1922. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Olive-green cloth-covered boards; dustjacket; 347pp. Very Good, with slight rubbing to gilt on spine; in the original pictorial dustwrapper, priced "$2.00 net" on spine, lightly rubbed overall and with some small nicks at extremities, Very Good.

Bottome's fourth work of fiction, a psychological study of a child of the slums who, following a patricide, a stint in prison and then a somewhat improbable Oxford education, goes on to organize striking dockworkers in London. Bottome was a disciple of Alfred Adler in Vienna; in 1924 she and her husband founded an international school in Austria where Ian Fleming was a pupil.

Price: $75.00

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