A Nice Clean Plate: Recollections, 1919-1931 Tapa dura - 1981

Very bright, tight, clean copy. No d/j.
good index. family tree illustrated endpapers. photographs sketches.

Hardback. Good.

Hardback. Very Good.

Very uncommon 1950s science fiction strip comic. Art by the great Ron Turner.

Salisbury, Wiltshire: Michael Russell, 1981. 96 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs, drawings, family tree on endpapers. "This is a good book about children, and a wonderful book about rich children. Though it was conceived originally only for private distribution, it would have been a shame had the matter ended there. The author's upbringing - she is a granddaughter of the first Lord Cowdray - suffered from very few limitations of budget, but she was, by her own account, a shy and pessimistic child (imagine the frustrations of being a pessimist about the Pearsons!) who viewed with dismay some of the side effects of her good fortune. (This) is a sympathetic, funny, unreproachful book, a bonanza for the social historian, and written with a real feeling for the essence of childhood." Book is slightly cocked, minor bump at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket is price-clipped, has wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, light wear at top of spine, minor rubbing..… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.