From Bookenastics, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since September 27, 2006
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The book centres on 'The May of Teck Club', a fictional institution said to have been established by Princess May of Teck during the First World War for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years, who are obliged to reside apart from their Families in order to follow an Occupation in London". It concerns the lives and loves of its desperate residents amongst the deprivations of immediate post-war Kensington between VE Day and VJ Day in 1945. The story is framed by the news, in 1963, that Nicholas Farringdon, an anarchist intellectual turned Jesuit, has been killed in Haiti. Journalist Jane Wright, a former inhabitant of the Club, wants to research his story. / This is a 1st edition hardback with its dustjacket in good condition-the dustjacket is 'price-clipped' & the previous owner has signed the front end-paper & the 'D/J' is a little creased&rubbed. (183 pages). Seller Inventory # 10366
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Girls Of Slender Means
Publisher: U.K / Macmillan & Co Ltd
Publication Date: 1963
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
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