Red Letter Holiday.

(Raverat.) PYE (Virginia)

Red Letter Holiday.

Description: FIRST EDITION, frontispiece map and illustrations to the text (some full-page), all drawn by Gwen Raverat, pp. 254, crown 8vo, original limp blue cloth, backstrip lettered and with a Raverat vignette in red, lean to spine, crease to top corner of flyleaf, dustjacket with a design to front panel by Gwen Raverat printed in three colours, light chipping to extremities, nicked at head of joint and flap-folds, two spots of internal tape repair at head, very good

Publication Details: Faber and Faber, 1940

Notes: A charming work, in which a group of children are by 'a quite natural misunderstanding [...] left entirely on their own' (blurb) and find adventure on a Cornish beach.The author was the younger sister of the novelist Margaret Kennedy; she married the engineer David Randall Pye, amongst whose sisters were the bookbinder Sybil Pye and the sculptor Ethel Pye, both of whom in the circle of Gwen Raverat.