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TALBOT, pseud., Kathrine, [[Ilse, BARKER], ]

BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Published: Faber, [1959]

Stock code: 14164

Price: £58.00

The author's second novel, following 'The Innermost Cage' (1955). Ilse Eva Louise Gross Barker (1921-2006), poet and author, was born in Germany, She married the English painter Kit Barker and the couple divided their time between England and the US, where they became close friends of the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Barker wrote several novels under her pen name 'Kathrine Talbot' and used this persona also in her many translations of foreign verse and prose. Her first two novels are very scarce. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION