1929 Harriet Hume

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

Undated, dated from Library Hub and the adverts which are dated 1929. 

Rebecca West is best known for her adaptability to write in a diversity of genres. She was also a literary critic and journalist who was a correspondent for 'The Bookman' and notably covered the Nuremberg trials for 'The New Yorker'. 

This is a modernist novel about a piano playing prodigy and her obsessive lover. The protagonist Harriet Hume is depicted as an ethereal and whimsical woman by her lover Condorex, a man bent on power. Hume learns she can read his mind and follows her triumph over man's quest for dominance and destruction. 

A twentieth century classic, here in its first edition form.  Understandably without the vanishingly scarce Rex Whistler dustwrapper.