[Rarebooks] FS: Mary Lee Settle THE KISS OF KIN Inscribed to her husband

[Charles Agvent]

SETTLE, Mary Lee THE KISS OF KIN
Heinemann London (1955) 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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