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147 RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); STOPES, Marie, as Erica Fay. A Road to Fairyland. London and New York: G. P. Putnam’s and Sons, Ltd, 1926 First edition, presentation copy, inscribed “To Alfred Douglas from the author, Marie Carmichael Stopes, Xmas 1941” on preliminary blank, together with a note on the appearance of the first story in the collection (“This is the one published in the Fortnightly Review ”). Dr Marie Stopes (1880–1958), best known for her contributions to palaeontology, her pioneering work on birth control, and her manual Married Love , was also a prolific writer of novels, poems, and fairy stories. Her unexpected friendship with Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945) is well-documented. An entry on Stopes in the DNB supplement for 1951–60 states “in the forties she took an almost naive pride in reading a paper on her friend, Lord Alfred Douglas . . . to the Royal Society of Literature of which she was a fellow”. The ODNB notes “a paradoxical friendship developed with Lord Alfred Douglas (Oscar Wilde’s ‘Bosie’, and a Roman Catholic convert), for whom she made strenuous efforts to obtain a civil-list pension”. George Bernard Shaw once wrote to Stopes “There are only three Immortals now living – myself, Bosie and you” (Briant, p. 195). The dust jacket exists in two known states. The first includes Arthur Rackham’s frontispiece on the front cover and is priced at 5s. An advert from the
publishers published in the Times Literary Supplement on 30 September 1926 cites this price. A “cheap edition” is advertised in the Times Literary Supplement on 26 September 1929 at 2s. 6d. This copy has the first state jacket. Octavo. Original grey cloth, lettering to spine and front cover in dark blue. With dust jacket. Colour frontispiece by Arthur Rackham. Extremities slightly bumped, dampstaining to edge, some browning; a very good copy. Dust jacket worn and soiled with some loss; a good example of a first state and unclipped dust jacket. ¶ Keith Rutherford Briant, Marie Stopes: A Biography , 1962; Latimore & Haskell, p. 62; Riall, p. 160. £750 [153938] 148 RICHARDSON, Dorothy. Pointed Roofs. London: Duckworth & Co., 1915 REVIEW COPY OF THE FIRST BOOK IN THE PILGRIMAGE CYCLE First edition, review copy, of the author’s first novel, and the first in her 13-book cycle entitled Pilgrimage . Richardson was a clear precursor to James Joyce and
Virginia Woolf, and it was to describe her work that the phrase “stream of consciousness” was first applied in a literary context, by May Sinclair in The Egoist . The title page is stamped in purple ink, “To be published on 16 Sept 1915”, designating this an advance copy sent out for review. An ownership inscription on the half-title, taped over but still legible through, “Hobbs, Flat 4, Queen’s Gdns, Hove” gives an inconclusive clue to the recipient. Perhaps because of its advance status, this copy does not have the printed slip usually found tipped-in at the title page giving notice of the change of title “owing to the fact that part of it has been found to be already in existence as the title of a novel”. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front board lettered in black, publisher’s device to rear board in blind. 16 pp. publisher’s advertisement at the rear. Somewhat rubbed to extremities, cloth with a few other marks, gilt still bright to spine, a few spots within, very good condition. £750 [154068] 149 RICHARDSON, Dorothy. The Trap. London: Duckworth, 1925 SCARCE SIGNED COPY, FROM THE PILGRIMAGE SERIES First edition, signed by the author on the dedication page and very scarce thus. The Trap was the eighth instalment in Richardson’s 13-book Pilgrimage series,
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