LYNCH, Patricia. A Storyteller's Childhood
LYNCH, Patricia. A Storyteller's Childhood. London: Dent. 1947. With drawings by Harry Kernoff. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the excellent dust jacket designed by Kenneth Romney Towndrow. Publisher’s retained copy with ‘file’ stamp to the front endpaper and date of publication in ink below. An otherwise very good copy, the cloth clean and bright, a trifle bumped at extremities, but the binding tight and square. The contents clean and fine. The dust jacket unclipped (10s 6d net), nicked and chipped around the spine head and tail and at corners, the spine a trifle faded, the joints gently bumped, but a handsome copy with some exquisite drawings throughout.
A semi-autobiographical account of the Irish children’s author’s tumultuous childhood, from the ancestral home in Cork where her mother told of Celtic legends to the convent school, and then, with the death of her father aged five, to the London slums, to Manchester, Brighton and Paris and beyond, all the while the young Lynch living haphazard one day and grieved when boarding the next, and despite her Cockney accent which she kept on with for the rest of her life, she is imbued with the Irish heritage and culture which fuelled her sense of nationalism and feminism throughout her life. Uncommon in the jacket.
LYNCH, Patricia. A Storyteller's Childhood. London: Dent. 1947. With drawings by Harry Kernoff. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the excellent dust jacket designed by Kenneth Romney Towndrow. Publisher’s retained copy with ‘file’ stamp to the front endpaper and date of publication in ink below. An otherwise very good copy, the cloth clean and bright, a trifle bumped at extremities, but the binding tight and square. The contents clean and fine. The dust jacket unclipped (10s 6d net), nicked and chipped around the spine head and tail and at corners, the spine a trifle faded, the joints gently bumped, but a handsome copy with some exquisite drawings throughout.
A semi-autobiographical account of the Irish children’s author’s tumultuous childhood, from the ancestral home in Cork where her mother told of Celtic legends to the convent school, and then, with the death of her father aged five, to the London slums, to Manchester, Brighton and Paris and beyond, all the while the young Lynch living haphazard one day and grieved when boarding the next, and despite her Cockney accent which she kept on with for the rest of her life, she is imbued with the Irish heritage and culture which fuelled her sense of nationalism and feminism throughout her life. Uncommon in the jacket.
LYNCH, Patricia. A Storyteller's Childhood. London: Dent. 1947. With drawings by Harry Kernoff. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the excellent dust jacket designed by Kenneth Romney Towndrow. Publisher’s retained copy with ‘file’ stamp to the front endpaper and date of publication in ink below. An otherwise very good copy, the cloth clean and bright, a trifle bumped at extremities, but the binding tight and square. The contents clean and fine. The dust jacket unclipped (10s 6d net), nicked and chipped around the spine head and tail and at corners, the spine a trifle faded, the joints gently bumped, but a handsome copy with some exquisite drawings throughout.
A semi-autobiographical account of the Irish children’s author’s tumultuous childhood, from the ancestral home in Cork where her mother told of Celtic legends to the convent school, and then, with the death of her father aged five, to the London slums, to Manchester, Brighton and Paris and beyond, all the while the young Lynch living haphazard one day and grieved when boarding the next, and despite her Cockney accent which she kept on with for the rest of her life, she is imbued with the Irish heritage and culture which fuelled her sense of nationalism and feminism throughout her life. Uncommon in the jacket.