ROSAMOND LEHMANN - INSCRIBED BOOK SIGNED TWICE CIRCA 1930 - HFSID 255301

ROSAMOND LEHMANN
Limited edition of her A Note in Music, inscribed with her self-criticism: "This isn't at all a good book, but it might have been better if I'd waited, say 80 years, before writing it."
Inscribed book signed twice: "Rosamond Lehmann" [on the special edition page]; and on the flyleaf: "Miriam/with love/from/Rosamond/This isn't at all a good/book, but it might have/been better if I'd waited, say/80 years, before writing it./So I go on worrying about/Grace - & feeling I've let/her down - Zu späht!/Alas". 5¾x8½, 318 pages. A Note in Music, by Rosamond Lehman. London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. Limited edition #68 of 260, hardcover. Rosamond Lehmann (1907-1989) was an English novelist whose first book, Dusty Answer (1927), was a best seller, controversial at the time for its open portrayal of gay and lesbian relationships at Cambridge, her alma mater. In all she wrote seven novels and a short story collection, translated two French works into English, and authored some nonfiction, including an autobiography. Her only play, No More Music, opened in 1939. Her novels The Weather in the Streets (1936) and The Echoing Grove (1953) were made into movies, the latter re-titled Heart of Me (2002). Lehmann was a member of the "Bloomsbury set," which included literature luminaries such as Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey. She was honored as a CBE in 1982. Corners and edges lightly worn. Pages toned. Otherwise, fine condition.