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The Innocent and the Guilty

1971rif. 2872London: Chatto & Windus 1971. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION ROGER PEERS' COPY. 8vo. Original salmon cloth spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine ends. Dints to bottom board edges faint spotting to edges. Fawn book label of "Roger Neville Russ Peers" to front pastedown inscribed in the curator's elegant hand in brown ink to ffep: "Roger Peers September 1974 Norfolk Broads." Else clean tight and tidy. In the original chartreuse typographical dust jacket: faint sunning to spine edgewear and related fine bands of darkening. Very good/ very good A rather lovely association copy of Warner's final collection of non-Elfin short stories written during the years preceding her partner Valentine Ackland's death in November 1969 from the collection of Roger Peers Curator of the Dorset County Museum 1959-1992 late friend of STW and saviour of her personal library and papers many items of which were transferred to the Museum; in establishing its STW collection he played a crucial role in ensuring her cultural legacy. A prominent curator Roger Peers 1932-2023 was also Secretary of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society DNHAS through which he met STW. The elderly author granted Peers "the chance to choose for the collection of DNHAS which owns the Dorset County Museum any books from the library in her house at Frome Vauchurch and also for myself" Peers 2017. In 1986 with the house needing to be cleared Peers worked with bookseller John Ruston to "put aside all the copies of STW's and VA's books all the presentation copies of other authors and a great many books of significance and reference as well as shopping lists and drafts of poems". Peers also retrieved manuscripts of STW's musical compositions from rubbish bags. Russell & Lawrence Mitchell 33a; Roger Peers 2017 'A Dilemma and a Narrow Escape.' The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society 172. Chatto & Windus hardcover

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