THE EVIL VINEYARD. London & New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1923]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-216, original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. In 1903 Marie Hay (1873–1938) married Herbert von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg. "She lived in Rome, where her husband was attached to the German embassy, and wrote fictionalized historical biographies ... After the First World War she published one more novel, THE EVIL VINEYARD (1923), about a young woman brought up in a narrow upper-class English household who marries an older man, goes to live with him in a haunted house in north Italy, and is torn between him and a younger lover. It apparently attracted the attention of the psychoanalyst C. G. Jung." - Kemp, Mitchell and Trotter, Edwardian Fiction, p. 178. Hubin (1994), p. 385 (mistitled THE EVIL VANGUARD). Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978), Day (1963), Reginald (1979; 1992). A very good copy. A scarce book. (#171876).
Price: $350.00
"First Published October 1923" on copyright page.