Publication details: Michael Joseph,1958,
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A review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in, quoting the publication price and date (September 29th, 1958).A novel of stifled suburbia; the wives of the Common, on the outskirts of London, each like 'little icebergs' with 'a bright and shining face' above water, but below the surface an 'isolated personality' with a combined 'energy' that 'could have started a revolution, powered half of Southern England, driven an atomic plant', but was 'all directed towards the effortless task of living on the Common'.The book remains in print, via Persephone Books.
FIRST EDITION, pp. 240, crown 8vo, original black boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, very slight lean to spine, some faint mottling to boards, faint partial browning to free endpapers, dustjacket with a sliver of darkening at head of front panel, a few tiny spots to borders, very good
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