first edition Hardcover
1950 · London
by SEBASTIAN, Anna (pseudonym of Friedl Benedikt)
London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Endpapers a trifle foxed, else fine in near fine, lightly rubbed and soiled dustwrapper. A very uncommon novel, the last of three by an author whose work often teeters on the border of fantasy. Benedikt was a German Jew who fled first to France, and then England before the war, along with Elias Canetti with whom she had both a personal and professional relationship. She died at the age of 37. (Inventory #: 78299)