Frost in May.
Desmond Harmsworth, London, 1933
Octavo. Original white cloth, titles to spine in red, blue coated endpapers. Contents a little marked and lightly tanned, cloth somewhat grubby. Very good.
FIRST EDITION, first impression. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, “To Peggy who would take my death very absentmindedly * from Antonia” and on the rear pastedown, “* but who made my life very pleasant while it lasted”. The recipient was Peggy Guggenheim with her signature to the front free endpaper. At the time of writing “Frost in May”, White was a key member of Guggenheim's literary circle spending much time at Hayford Hall, a remote country estate in Devonshire, England, rented by Peggy Guggenheim.
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