[Rarebooks] FOR SALE: A FEW BOOKS IN THE FAMOUS KEYNOTES SERIES

[Norman Kane]

DAWE, W. CARLTON.  YELLOW AND WHITE.  Boston: Roberts Bros.; London: John Lane, 1895.  First US edition.  Original decorated cloth, cover & title page design by Beardsley. Tissue at title, as issued. An excellent copy. ( Australian/British author. "His work often examined the difficulties of white man's difficulties in settlement of the Far East, and his earlier short stories anticipate Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham. Yellow and White (1895) and Kakemonos (1897), are collections of short stories and notes along this line and gave straightforward accounts of interracial sex ("the love of the white for the yellow")."  The Boston edition is  scarcer than the London edition.  $175.00

FARR, FLORENCE.  DANCING FAUN.  Boston: Roberts Bros.; London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1894 First US edition. Original pictorial cloth, Typical Beardsley 
cover & title page design of a seated faun.  A nice copy.   The Boston edition is scarcer by far than the London edition.  {"Florence Beatrice Emery (née) Farr (7 July 1860—29 April 1917) was a British West End leading actress, composer and director. She was also a women's rights activist, journalist, educator, singer, novelist, leader of a secret occult order, and one time mistress of playwright George Bernard Shaw. She was a friend and collaborator with Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats, poet Ezra Pound, playwright Oscar Wilde, artists Aubrey Beardsley and Pamela Colman Smith, Masonic scholar Arthur Edward Waite, theatrical producer Annie Horniman, and many other literati of London's Fin de siècle era, and even by their standards she was "the bohemian's bohemian". Though not as well-known as some of her contemporaries and successors, Farr was a "First Wave" Feminist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; she publicly advocated for suffrage, workplace equality, and equal protection under the law for women, writing a book and many articles in intellectual journals on the rights of "the modern woman".  $350.00

EGERTON, GEORGE, (pseud. of Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright.)  KEYNOTES.  Boston: Roberts Bros.; London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1893.  First US clothbound edition (preceded by copies in wraps.) Original cloth, front cover lettered in gold with the key design in gold, spine lettered in gold, rear cover plain.  Two tiny pale spots on the spine, otherwise a nice copy. Elaborate Beardsley design on the title page showing 3 characters, &c.  Tissue at title, as issued.  The success and notoriety of this book led to its title being chosen for the series. Although born in Australia, she thought of herself as Irish, having spent many years in and around Dublin. The book is dedicated to Knut Hamsun, with whom she had an affair and whose work she translated (the story, "Now Spring Has Come", in this book is based on that relationship. "Egerton is often considered today in terms of ... the British 'New Woman' movement in literature. Her stylistic innovations ... and her often radical & feminist subject matter have ensured that her fiction continues to generate academic interest in  America [where she lived briefly] and Britain."  $225.00

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