Common Touch by Farrell (1 results)

FIRST EDITION, initials scratched at head of half-title (carrying through to title-page), pp. [iv], 217, crown 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, faint discolouration to boards, a little rubbing to extremities and a couple of faint spots at head of free endpapers, slightly later gift inscription to flyleaf (beneath the author's inscription, see below), dustjacket a little spotted and faintly soiled overall, backstrip panel a shade faded, chipped at extremities, very good. Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'For Monica Carolan, with best wishes, Kathleen Farrell'. Presentation copies of the author's work are rare - the recipient here presumably the same bearer of that name who edited Mozart's letters for Macmillan in the 1960s. Her fourth novel - uncommon. Farrell's work was often compared with that of Barbara Pym, though the wit and cynicism that partly provides that comparison has a distinct character.