Say It with a Song Hardcover - 1956

Hurst and Blackett, London, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 275 g.; (4), 5-208 pages stop red coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping to the lower backstrip edge and to the book corners. Foxing and light browning to the text block edges. Light foxing to the endpapers and to the text. Original bookseller's sticker affixed to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down, and this has ghosted on to the free front end paper. Previous owners details had been scrubbed out using "whiteout", to the top left-hand corner of the front paste-down. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with ochre and black titles to the front panel and blue titles to the backstrip. Chipping to the dustwrapper corners and top backstrip edge. The lower 0.25 " of the backstrip is missing. Rubbing to the dustwrapper edges and dustwrapper panels and the backstrip and the rear panel shows sunning. Clipping of the dustwrapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. "Can a girl be really happy with the man whose job she despises? Bettina Lessing, a clever young journalist, thought not, and so fortified against the natural attraction she felt for Larry Raines, the crooner, who was the idol of all teen-age girls. How and why Bettina changed her mind about Larry and his job, and what happened after she did so forms the subject of this intriguing romance." -- From the front fold over panel blurb. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Fiction -- Romance; Inventory No: 0111439. .