Winifred Holtby - South Riding

London, Collins, 1936 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition, first impression, of Winifred Holtby's posthumously published best known work, 'South Riding. The first edition, first impression. In the original dust wrapper, with dust wrapper price to front flyleaf tail roughly torn away.Set in the fictional South Riding of Yorkshire, the novel follows a cast of characters include an idealistic young headmistress, a socialist fighting against poverty, and the first woman alderman on the county council.Holtby is best known for this work, and for her lifelong friendship with the prominent diarist Vera Brittain, who edited this work.This novel won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1936, and has never been out of print. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with dust wrapper price to front flyleaf tail roughly torn away. Bumping to back strip tail, with a touch of fading to back strip. Dust wrapper back strip age toned, with small losses to head and tail, and a hole to the back strip centre. Loss to tail of front wrap. Tape repairs to dust wrapper reverse at back strip head and tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Good.

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