Publication details: Hamish Hamilton,1962,
Rare Book
Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'Violet, from Lance, as an apology for not being able to come to champagne and a memento of the most charming Jurywoman I have ever met. Lance, Jan 64'. The recipient, as the ownership inscription to the half-title clarifies, was Violet Payne - otherwise obscure.This is the first novel by the youngest son of Angela Thirkell (and therefore, the great-grandson of Edward Burne-Jones, half-brother to Colin MacInnes, a cousin twice-removed to Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin, and the son-in-law of illustrator Thomas Lowinsky).The dustjacket is early work by Quentin Blake.
FIRST EDITION, pp. 261, crown 8vo, original brown boards, backstrip lettered in gilt (the lettering by Quentin Blake), free endpapers lightly spotted, dustjacket by Quentin Blake, the backstrip panel browned, faint mark at head of front panel (not affecting Blake illustration), a few small nicks, a couple of spots to rear panel, very good
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