The Unlit Lamp

Radclyffe Hall

London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne

:

Cassell and Company

,

1924

.
First Edition.

19.5cm x 12cm. [vi], 344 pages. Original green cloth, black lettering, no jacket.

The first novel by Radclyffe Hall, published four years prior to her most well known lesbian love story, The Well of Loneliness. The Unlit Lamp tells the story of Joan Ogden as she fails to break free of her controlling mother and live her own life in a Boston marriage with another woman.

Very slightly cocked. Moderate shelf wear. Minor foxing. Very Good Condition.