INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO HER HUSBAND
Mossy Trotter
Chatto & Windus, 1967.
First edition. Original blue boards in pictorial dustwrapper. Author's presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front endpaper to her husband, "John with love from Liz" Dustwrapper design and illustrations throughout by Laszlo Acs. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper
The author's only children's book.
Born Elizabeth Coles, she married John Taylor, a chocolatier in 1936, publishing her first novel in 1945. They lived most of their married life in Penn, Buckinghamshire. Described by Kingsley Amis as "One of the best English novelists born this century", Taylor's writing career was forced into relative obscurity as a consequence of coinciding with the rise of her more famous namesake, the American actress. Her style was in the mould of Ivy Compton-Burnett, Barbara Pym and Elizabeth Bowen, and has only recently been rediscovered as one of the important authors of the mid-twentieth century.
PROVENANCE: John and Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975, Novelist)
Stock ID: 31051
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