Buy this book on-line OLIVE CUSTANCE : The Inn of Dreams. PoemsJohn Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1911
First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. viii, 74pp + [ii] publisher's catalogue. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards with a printed paper spine label and a small black-stamped decoration to the tips of all corners. The backstrip cloth and spine label a little darkened and with a single tiny blemish. A trace of toning to the free endpapers, and a contemporary former owner gift inscription inked to the head of the front free endpaper. A very good copy. The author's fourth and final collection, comprising a verse-dedication and thirty-nine poems. Most uncommon. Custance was part of the aesthetic movement of the 1890s, intermingling with the likes of Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and Ernest Dowson from the age of just sixteen. She engaged in a brief relationship with Natalie Clifford Barney and her then lover Renée Vivien (detailed in the former's memoirs and the latter's novel 'A Woman Appeared to Me') but eventually married Lord Alfred Douglas, their courtship beginning six months after the death of Oscar Wilde. Custance's father disapproved of the relationship, eventually winning custody of their only child, Raymond Douglas. Custance and Douglas endured a stormy relationship, but they remained married (despite "the welter of mud and stones" hurled at it by their enemies - Douglas) until her death in 1944. Douglas himself died the following year.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of OLIVE CUSTANCE : The Inn of Dreams. Poems. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres illustrées, atlases, first editions, fine bindings and collectables. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |