ANDERSON, Margaret

My Thirty Years' War: an Autobiography

London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First U.K. Edition. First impression. Large octavo (24cm). Blue cloth, titled in orange on spine and front cover; frontispiece; 274pp, 16 inserted leaves of plates and one double-page facsimile not reckoned in pagination. Straight and tight, with a bit of chafing to boards, a couple of tiny specks of white paint to spine; Very Good. Lacking the dustwrapper.

Quite attractive copy of this significant memoir, recording the development of Anderson's Little Review and the first three decades of literary modernism, with intimate recollections of Gertrude Stein, Emma Goldman, Brancusi, Pound, Bracque, Hemingway, etc. One of relatively few copies published in the U.K. under the Knopf imprint. The American edition was issued by Covici Friede.

Price: $100.00

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