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Smoke from Cromwell's Time: Available Copies
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"Smoke from Cromwells Time, and Other Stories" by Aiken, Joan
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Smoke from Cromwell's Time and other stories by Aiken (Joan)
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Publisher: Doubleday & Company, New York (1970)
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books (Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $474.16
Shipping: $27.08
TOTAL Cost: $501.24
First US edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy from the author to Richard [Dalby], with accompanying typed letter to the same signed by the author. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Dust-jacket, priced $3.95. A collection of short stories displaying Aiken's characteristic blend of historical imagination, folklore tone, and quiet strangeness. An attractive association copy, having been sent by the author to the editor and literary researcher Richard Dalby, famous for his anthologies of ghost stories. Richard Dalby was a known collector and editor who had a significant professional relationship with Aiken, who frequently inscribed and signed her books for him. Aiken's story 'The Traitor' appeared in Dalby's 1992 anthology Modern Ghost Stories, and this letter would suggest that they were considering further stories by her to similarly anthologise. A very good copy; jacket with a couple of small closed tears, overall very good.
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Smoke from Cromwell's Time and Other Stories by AIKEN, Joan (Conrad Aiken)
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385126205
Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City (1970)
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fine
Book Price: $500.00
Shipping: $5.50
TOTAL Cost: $505.50
First American edition. Fine in modestly rubbed, else near fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, as well as by her father Conrad Aiken, and her stap-mother (and Conrad's third wife) Mary Hoover: "For Maude with love from Joan, Mary & Conrad 1970. The inscription seems to be all in Joan Aiken's hand, except for the signature of Conrad Aiken. Joan was the daughter of Conrad's first wife, Jessie McDonald.
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