Hetty Dorval
Ethel Wilson
Vancouver: The Alcuin Society, 1967
Typographer: Charles Morris/ Illustrator: Gus Rueter
"This is number 230 of an edition limited to 375 copies which was produced especially for members of the Alcuin Society."
Anyone looking for evidence of the neglect shown Ethel Wilson, British Columbia's greatest novelist, might want to consider the prices being asked for this unusual edition. An elegant production, with a five-page author's introduction that appears nowhere else, it can be bought online for as little as US$25. Twenty years ago, during those heady days of bookseller catalogues, I paid C$75 for this copy. At the time, I thought it was a fantastic bargain.
And it was.
