Lot 1581 , [Bagnold, Enid] - Enid Bagnold's Autobiography (from 1889). An Original Typescript Copy (with some 24 ms corrections) and Inscribed by Author on title - 'For Alicia Scott / With the Author's love / a long pre-publication

° [Bagnold, Enid] - Enid Bagnold's Autobiography (from 1889). An Original Typescript Copy (with some 24 ms corrections) and Inscribed by Author on title - 'For Alicia Scott / With the Author's love / a long pre-publication / Gift / March 1969 / Enid Bagnold / Rottingdean, 2 vols. (1), 161 and (1), 162-334pp. (printed and paged rectos only). printed wrappers, folio. *Enid Algerine Bagnold (1889-1981) British novelist and playwright; well-known as the author of 'National Velvet' (1935), filmed in 1944 with the young Elizabeth Taylor; her major stage success 'The Chalk Garden' (1955) was filmed in 1964 (with Edith Evans and Deborah Kerr). In 1920 she married Sir Roderick Jones, Chairman of Reuters, living is Sussex at North End House, Rottingdean (near Brighton), previously the home of Sir Edward Burne-Jones. The recipient of the gift was a Brighton friend.
£300-400

Condition:
Condition: Very good condition, the book was published the same year as this typescript was inscribed (by Heinemann) and with the same title. In addition to the blue ink corrections (in first vol. only) there are several spaces throughout noted for illus. insertions, as 'photograph', 'drawings', etc., some being captioned.