The Apple is Bitten Again. (Self Portrait).

Moore (Olive, pseud. for Constance Vaughan)

Publication details: Wishart & Co,[1934,]

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Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'To Arnold Ovenden, Olive Moore'. Presentation copies of her work are rare.Moore is nothing less than forthright - the rear flap offers the term 'pungent'. The volume gathers contents of her notebooks, ranging from the aphoristic to essays on 'Woman as Uncreative Artist' and 'Further Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine' - her meditation on Lawrence (reprinted here because, she asserts in a short Foreword, 'I am sick and tired of being quoted and plagiarised without acknowledgement').

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FIRST EDITION, frontispiece showing sculpture of author by Sava Botzaris, some very faint spotting to opening leaves, small mark below colophon at rear, pp. [viii], 207, crown 8vo, original quarter green cloth with sides of Cockerell marbled paper in shades of green, black and gold, backstrip lettered in a darker green, dustjacket with a nick at head of front panel and very short closed tear at head of rear panel, crack to surface at margin of front panel and some very faint blotching to backstrip panel, very good

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