London: The Hogarth Press, 1952. First edition. 139pp. Small 8vo. Light blue textured-paper over boards; dust jacket. Boards with moderate fading and light foxing; offsetting to endpapers. Unclipped jacket lightly foxed, with toning to spine. Very good.
The second of two novels by English linguist and academic Eliza Marian Butler (1885-1959); a meta-fiction about "a novelist, his wife and his explorer brother," which unfolds into a "satire on the biographical method of literary criticism." Butler notable for breaking ground as a female intellectual, and as author of the influential work of cultural analysis The Tyranny of Greece over Germany (1935). Jacket design by Serena Chance.
