Hall (Radclyffe) The Sixth Beatitude.
£110
First edition, first printing.
London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1936
‘Radclyffe Hall has had the courage to set down the thoughts and conversations of her characters without censorship. Here is English as it is really spoken by the poor in cottage, field and inn’ (dust-jacket)
Dust-jacket by Edgar Holloway.
In stock
Publisher’s dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket with some slight darkening, some wear with small sections of loss to corners and spine-ends.
Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943), poet & author, most famous for her novel The Well of Loneliness, a groundbreaking work in lesbian literature.
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