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After the Festival
by COST, March; BIRO, B. S. (dust jacket illustrator)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Cassell, 1966. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [236]. Green cloth, boards patterned in red, spine lettered in silver. Fine bands of sunning to spine ends, a few spots to top edge. Else, clean and tidy. In Val Biro's wraparound pictorial dust jacket: spine sunned, creasing and light wear to spine ends,still, the Edinburgh cityscape remains vivid. A pleasing copy. Very good/ very good March Cost was the pen name of Margaret Mackie Morrison (1897-1973). Morrison was a creative shape-shifter: having originally studied at the Glasgow School of Art, she subsequently trained in the theatre and joined Frank Benson's company, with which she performed across the English provinces and at the Royal Court. She retired from the stage to pursue a career as a novelist, initially publishing short stories under Peggy Morrison, before finding international success with her first novel as March Cost, A Man Named Luke (1932). After the Festival moves from Warsaw on the brink of war to England and post-war Scotland: "a poignant story of a sensitive woman's development from a broken childhood to full maturity". The printed dedication reads: "Mary Morrison Her Book".
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2337
- Title
- After the Festival
- Author
- COST, March; BIRO, B. S. (dust jacket illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1966
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts;
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Quair Books
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Leeds, West Yorkshire
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