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DAVIES, Rhys ;- Rings on Her Fingers.
London: Harold Shaylor, 1930, First Signed Collectors Edition, 8vo, 256pp., a few occasional light spots to blank endpapers, top edges blocked in gilt remainder untrimmed, original cloth gilt. A near fine copy. Signed Limited edition, No.37 of 175 copies, signed by the Author.
The Welsh author's second novel about a poverty-stricken woman, fiercely rebelling against the restraints of her married life. Rhys Davies (1901-78) was among the most dedicated, prolific and accomplished of Welsh prose-writers, in both the short story and the novel form. By temperament a loner, he gave up his life entirely to his writing. A homosexual in the days before the Sexual Offences Act, he maintained complete discretion and ‘acted straight’. The only woman to whom he was drawn was Anna Kavan (1901-68), a fellow-novelist and drug addict, whom he saved from suicide on two occasions. Protecting his privacy, and fearing intrusion into his inner life, he kept others at arm’s length, observing them but never becoming emotionally involved with any of them, man or woman.
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London: Harold Shaylor, 1930, First Signed Collectors Edition, 8vo, 256pp., a few occasional light spots to blank endpapers, top edges blocked in gilt remainder untrimmed, original cloth gilt. A near fine copy. Signed Limited edition, No.37 of 175 copies, signed by the Author.
The Welsh author's second novel about a poverty-stricken woman, fiercely rebelling against the restraints of her married life. Rhys Davies (1901-78) was among the most dedicated, prolific and accomplished of Welsh prose-writers, in both the short story and the novel form. By temperament a loner, he gave up his life entirely to his writing. A homosexual in the days before the Sexual Offences Act, he maintained complete discretion and ‘acted straight’. The only woman to whom he was drawn was Anna Kavan (1901-68), a fellow-novelist and drug addict, whom he saved from suicide on two occasions. Protecting his privacy, and fearing intrusion into his inner life, he kept others at arm’s length, observing them but never becoming emotionally involved with any of them, man or woman.
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