Lot 463
[Wilkinson, Iris G]/'Robin Hyde'
Wednesday's Children, warmly inscribed by author to friend Warwick Lawrence.
Realised: $900 June 2010
1st ed. Hurst & Blackett, London [1937]. 8vo. 286p. W1237. Orange cloth. Fore-edge FX. Inscription of FFEP: 'Warwick Lawrence, Best luck in writing and in having fun - Robin Hyde (Iris Wilkinson), December '37.' Little-known Lawrence wrote 'Vulcan Lane and Other Verses', introduced by Hyde, and edited 'Yours and Mine, Stories by Young New Zealanders', which included a piece by Hyde. He was friendly with the 1930s Auckland literary set that included Hyde, Gloria Rawlinson, Ron Holloway, Jane Mander, Bob Lowry, etc.