THE WELL OF LONELINESS
by Hall, Radclyffe (Comment by Havelock Ellis)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Richmond, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
Covici, Friede, Publishers, New York, 1928. This is the third printing of this well-known classic work. It has been nicely rebound in a modernist style, half leather over paper covered boards. The spine is tooled in gilt with red labels. There is no binders stamp or ticket but the binding is of good quality. The leather is a rich purple crushed morocco and the paper covered boards have an abstract angular design. Some slight wear to the extremities and a few small scratches on the paper covered boards but overall a very attractive binding. The text is clean and unmarked. Laid in is an old sales ticket from 1981 from Brick Row Bookshop in San Francisco.
Synopsis
The Well of Loneliness is a 1928 lesbian novel by the English author Radclyffe Hall. It follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family whose "sexual inversion" (that is, homosexuality) is apparent from an early age. She finds love with Mary Llewellyn, whom she meets while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, but their happiness together is marred by social isolation and rejection, which Hall depicts as having a debilitating effect on inverts.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3832
- Title
- THE WELL OF LONELINESS
- Author
- Hall, Radclyffe (Comment by Havelock Ellis)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Covici, Friede
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
- Size
- Quarto
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- women's fiction,gay, lesbian, homosexual
Terms of Sale
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Morocco
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