[Rarebooks] FS: The late Mary Lee Settle's second book, inscribed to her second husband
Charles Agvent
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Fri Sep 30 09:06:14 EDT 2005
SETTLE, Mary Lee. THE KISS OF KIN. London: Heinemann (1955). First
Edition. First English Edition. This likely precedes the American
edition, as did her first book, THE LOVE EATERS, as Settle was living
in England at the time. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to her
second husband: "The first copy to/Den [Douglas Newton] with my
love/from/Mary Lee." Settle was married to Newton, a poet and
eventual curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, from 1946 to
1956. The dustwrapper, designed by Barbara Jones, has small chips at
the spine tips and a large chip at the base of the rear panel. Near
Fine in Very Good dustwrapper. $1500.00
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