Period piece / by Gwen Raverat
1953, 7th Impression. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #335306
Physical description: 281 pages: illustrations; 22 cm. Notes: "Gwen Raverat's recollection of her childhood in Victorian Cambridge"--Dust jacket. "First published in the United States 1953"--Title page verso. Contents: Prelude -- Newnham Grange -- Theories -- Education -- Ladies -- Propriety -- Aunt Etty -- Down -- Ghosts and horrors -- The five uncles -- Religion -- Sport -- Clothes -- Society. Subjects: Raverat, Gwen 1885-1957. Raverat, Gwen 1885-1957 Childhood and youth. Wood-engravers England Cambridge; Biography. Women artists Great Britain; Biography. Cambridge (England) Social life and customs. Genre: Autobiographies. Biography. Illustrated.
Price: €45.00