Bryher [Annie Winifred Ellerman] — Beowulf: A Novel

New York, Pantheon Books, 1956. Cloth. A smart first US edition of this wartime novel from Bryher, the pen name of English novelist Annie Winifred Ellerman. First US edition. Set in London during the Blitz, this novel follows a collection of tenacious characters in crisis. Being a story of recent history and the civilian involvement in total war, this is beautifully wrought story of a London neighbourhood whose hearth is in the teashop where their lives converge. Written by Annie Winifred Ellerman, known by the pen name Bryher, an English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine editor of the Ellerman ship-owning family. She was a major figure of the international set in Paris in the 1920s, using her fortune to help many struggling writers, and helped to evacuate Jews from Nazi Germany from her home in Switzerland. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also very smart with light wear to the extremities and sunning to the spine. The odd small mark to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.