Tell Me a Riddle.
Inscribed to Gina Berriault
Olsen, Tillie. Tell Me A Riddle. London: Faber and Faber, (1961).
8vo.; red cloth, spine stamped in gilt; dust-jacket. In a specially made cloth slipcase.
First English edition; 300 copies. A presentation copy, inscribed on the front pastedown, under the dust-jacket flap, in Olsen’s miniscule holograph, to fellow writer Gina Berriault: To Gina— / In comradeship and the strong hope—wanting— / that you come to your best work— / TLO / December, 1965. Master of the short story Gina Berriault, best known for her story collection Women in Their Beds (1996), which won the National Book Critics Circle award and the PEN/Faulkner award, regularly deals in her longer fiction with the role of women—within their community, their home, and themselves.
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