Author: SCOTT, EVELYN
Title: The Shadow of the Hawk
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front pastedown page. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but does have edge wear, rubbing and several small edge tears. "Angus Pettigrew was eight when circumstances of the most tragic kind broke up the home in which he had lived happily, wrenched his adored father from him, and turned the child and his pretty, ineffective mother loose on a small-town world by which they were regarded with suspicion and scorn." "Evelyn Scott (January 17, 1893 – August 3, 1963) was an American novelist, playwright and poet. A modernist and experimental writer, Scott "was a significant literary figure in the 1920s and 1930s, but she eventually sank into critical oblivion." Her first husband was Cyril Kay-Scott, but she also had an affair with Owen Merton, father of Thomas Merton. Scott later married the English writer John Metcalfe. She sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms Ernest Souza and Elsie Dunn.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .
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Title: The Shadow of the Hawk
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front pastedown page. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but does have edge wear, rubbing and several small edge tears. "Angus Pettigrew was eight when circumstances of the most tragic kind broke up the home in which he had lived happily, wrenched his adored father from him, and turned the child and his pretty, ineffective mother loose on a small-town world by which they were regarded with suspicion and scorn." "Evelyn Scott (January 17, 1893 – August 3, 1963) was an American novelist, playwright and poet. A modernist and experimental writer, Scott "was a significant literary figure in the 1920s and 1930s, but she eventually sank into critical oblivion." Her first husband was Cyril Kay-Scott, but she also had an affair with Owen Merton, father of Thomas Merton. Scott later married the English writer John Metcalfe. She sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms Ernest Souza and Elsie Dunn.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: Modern Fiction First Editions Evelyn Scott Coming of Age sagas Social Issues Modern Fiction Firsts
Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 34544
- Book number: 34544
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