[Rarebooks] FS: Mary Lee Settle INSCRIBED to her husband, price cut in half

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:  WAS $1500    NOW $750 NET

SETTLE, Mary Lee. THE KISS OF KIN. London: Heinemann, (1955). First 
British 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 was designed by 
Barbara Jones. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with small chips at 
the spine tips and a large chip at the base of the rear panel. 
(#011425)        $750.00

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