Lot 120
Hall (Radclyffe) The Well of Loneliness, first edition, second issue, 1928.
Hammer Price: £650
Description
Hall (Radclyffe) The Well of Loneliness, first edition, second issue, with "Whips" on p.50 line 13 (corrected from "Whip"), original cloth, top edge stained black with some encroachment into very upper margin of some leaves, dust-jacket, small nick to lower panel, a little dust-soiled, but generally extremely well preserved, 8vo, 1928.
⁂ Hall's celebrated lesbian novel, banned in Britain after a scathing attack on its 'obscenity' by James Douglas, editor of the Sunday Express.
Description
Hall (Radclyffe) The Well of Loneliness, first edition, second issue, with "Whips" on p.50 line 13 (corrected from "Whip"), original cloth, top edge stained black with some encroachment into very upper margin of some leaves, dust-jacket, small nick to lower panel, a little dust-soiled, but generally extremely well preserved, 8vo, 1928.
⁂ Hall's celebrated lesbian novel, banned in Britain after a scathing attack on its 'obscenity' by James Douglas, editor of the Sunday Express.
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