Publication details: Oxford: Basil Blackwell,1941,
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A scarce book, her debut; this copy with a 3pp. autograph letter (dated March 1984) from the author laid in, signed and headed as Ursula Vaughan Williams - she married the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1953. The letter, to a Mrs Stevens, referring to her later work (in part, its commercial failure), but ending with the report that 'things are looking up'; she mentions having worked a great deal with composers, and jokes that 'I shall soon take metastasis as my middle name'.
FIRST EDITION, a few faint spots, pp. [viii], 47, crown 8vo, original yellow cloth, lettered in red to backstrip and upper board, a little soiled and worn, good
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