Ann Bridge SINGING WATERS First US edition and similar items

SINGING WATERS by Ann Bridge New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946. First U.S. edition, first printing (stated). This is not the common book club edition. Corner tips lightly bumped, else a near fine, clean copy in bright green cloth with titles and decoration in black; in a very good, lightly chipped dust jacket with a mildly soiled rear panel. Jacket flap price is $2.75. Ann Bridge, mountain climber, novelist, travel writer, and a British Diplomat's wife, drew on her own experiences of places for the internationally set novels. "Our protagonist is an unhappy and disillusioned young widow who travels to Albania as the result of a chance encounter on the Istanbul express. A fellow passenger tells her that there she will find a life that contains something far more satisfying than the restless gaiety of her cosmopolitan clique. Later, living in the feudal household of an Albanian prince, absorbing an atmosphere of immemorial dignity, and enjoying the friendship of two remarkable women - one a mature and cultured English writer, the other a wise old American doctor - she comes to understand what he had meant. And when, for the second time, she is faced with a tragic outcome to hopes of happiness in love, she is able to find solace among the granite heights and singing waters of Albania."--Fantastic Fiction. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!