A CAGE FOR LOVERS by Powell, Dawn - 1966

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Powell's penultimate novel, the story of a young woman from a small town in upstate New York who works as the personal assistant and factotum to a rich and not quite elderly woman. Octavo. Original blue paper-covered boards over a gray cloth spine, with blue titles. The boards are slightly bowed, with a bit of wear to the tips. Some general shelfwear to the dust jacket; otherwise about very good.

E-384: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1957. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 1957. 178 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This 1957 novel is little-known and what few words have been said about it are mixed. Powell was, at her best, an astute writer and comic genius. Both of these traits are in evidence here, in her second-to-last book. She was struggling with progressive health problems and changing society by this point, so her writing became quicker-paced, the scenes less dense, the focus on fewer characters. These weren't necessarily flaws. Cage comes off more effectively than her next, and last, novel. Both… Read More

BOSTON: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.. 1957. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Dawn Powell. ("Dear Peter- I owe everything!! Love Dawn.") Close to near fine in a very good+ dj. Powell inscriptions are decidedly uncommon, and specially so with this title. (B) .