Snow-white Soliloquies by MacLeod, Sheila - 1970

London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1970. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine Dust Wrapper; Some creeping of the plastic on the rear panel of the dust jacket.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Black cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Striking silver illustrated dust jacket. KIRKUS REVIEW All right, but no more stories. They always mean something, however much you may pretend that they don't." " And all right, no more Snow Whites, if you have to pretend that you know what they mean when you don't. . . Although she's quite seductive lying there in her glass coffin, escaping pain, refusing to remember, having chosen this "compromise between life and death," " visited--once a week--by Doc (he's saturnine, he's powerful, he's her father--perhaps not, all this role-playing is certainly confusing) and attended by the stunted social cripples who keep watch over her as they make a perpetual journey through an English countryside forever green, forever confined. . . . Miss MacLeod's modish variant version has a hermetic, fastidious, teasing fascination and if the charade which takes place under glass is never crystal clear, it's because it's a suspension from reality, like Snow White's. ; 142 pages.