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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,white background with colour pictorial artwork, by Susan Moxley,illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with black +blue lettering,critics' reviews to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Small,slight,waterstain internally to top of rear panel of dw/dj,towards the spine/backstrip's gutter's edge with the cloth's blue ink/dye bleaching to dw/dj and concomitant dulling of the cloth to corresponding spot/ space of the board.Some light scoring/indents to both panels of dw/dj - but without affecting the boards beneath.Top+fore-edges quiet heavily toned/aged - low quality of paper used at the time - otherwise spot+mark free; contents bright,tight,clean - near pristine,page-edge toning excepted - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,original,sharp-cornered plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain dark green endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7- 255pp [paginated] includes 47 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and a dedication. See also my book ID rja976 for an UNCORRECTED PROOF of this same title.
Early in 1941,having just seen off at Euston Station the two young men whom she has loved for the best part of her seventeen years, Juno Marlowe is hurrying down a London street with her ill-fitting shoes in her hands. Airplanes thunder overhead; a battery of guns opens up. When a stick of bombs falls she cowers,then takes to her heels in flight.She is rescued from this nightmare by a gaunt stranger,frail and older than his years,and,guiding her up his front stairs,he offers her the protection of his house.Given this respite from the bleakness of having no home and no family to turn to,Juno first encounters tragedy,then a series of events which take her to a house in the West Country and the blossoming of an English spring into which war only occasionally intrudes.Here she may find peace; here she will no longer be part of the furniture. Mary Wesley's new novel (then 1997),full of her customary warmth and joyful wit,encompasses all manner of emotion and experience with a striking clarity of sense and expression.Forming a triptych with her other wartime novels,'The Camomile Lawn' and 'A Sensible Life',this is one of her finest yet. See also my book ID rja976 for an UNCORRECTED PROOF of this same title. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **