THE THINGS WE DO AND OTHER STORIES

London, Toronto, Melbourne and Sydney: Cassell and Company, 1932. Octavo, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. A collection of eight short stories. Wylie lived a colorful life, born in Australia, growing up in England (without a mother or much supervision, teaching herself from her father's library), traveling freely in Europe -- as a child! -- studying in Belgium and Germany, and finally moving to America after World War I. She began writing, and publishing, stories when she was a teenager, and became a militant suffragette in the 1910s. Touch of foxing to fore-edge of text block, a tight, clean, nearly fine copy. (#116566) (Inventory #: 116566)