Longford. Christine.: Making Conversation. , London. Leonard Stein. 1931.1st edn. Hardback, no d/w. 288pp. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Light bumps to extrems. Foxing to text block edges and light foxing to prelims and first few and last few pages, neat contemporary ownership name and address to front pastedown, otherwise clean and tight. 1st book by Christine Longford. Pamela Hansford Johnson writes"'This witty book, crisp and dry as a fresh biscuit, is a novel of astonishing subtlety and of a subtlety that is not at all worked out. It is native and assured. It is this subtlety that saves Making Conversation from the imputation of triviality, of being just a funny novel" (Book ref. 3546) £40.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, The Old Station Pottery & Bookshop , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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