STALEY, THOMAS F. — Jean Rhys: A Critical Study
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1979. 029274014X. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 029274014X. Publisher's full orange cloth, black lettering on spine. Jean Rhys (1890–1979), pronounced "Rheece", born Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, was a mid 20th-century novelist from Dominica. Educated from the age of 16 in Great Britain, she is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), written as a "prequel" to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. The spine and top one-inch of the dust jacket (only) is sunned. FINE/VERY GOOD+.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (xiii), 140 pp. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .