Harriet Hume: A London Fantasy. by West, Rebecca - 1929

1929. London, Hutchinson & Co., No year (1929). 14.5 cm x 19.5 cm. 288 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with signs of external wear. Browning of page edges. Some spotting of inside pages. Otherswise clean inside with solid binding. "Of all the women he had ever known she was the most ethereal. Loving her was like swathing oneself with a long scarf of spirit.' Harriet Hume, musical, mystical and whimsical, is the very essence of femininity- both princess and trollop. Her beautiful room in a dilapidated Kensington House is the setting for this love story, she herself an extension of the beauty which surrounds her. Here amidst trees and lilacs, Arnold Condorex comes to be loved. And love him Harriet does, beyond reason. But Condorex is a man bent on power and Harriet is a woman with powers of quite another kind. In ruthlessly pursuing his ambition, Harriet- his better self- must be cast aside..." (Amazon)