'There is quite a Bloomsbury set, is there not?' 'There is,' said Miss Clame, 'but we're not in it. We're just the tiniest bit west, both spiritually and geographically.' Miss Clame certainly never concealed her limited income nor that she lives with two spinsters, Mavina Trelawny, who nearly climbed Mont Blanc, and Godiva Smith, who coloured pottery, but these were undoubtedly factors preventing her freely declaring her love for Geoffrey Remington. In this elegant, beautifully written novel, C.H.B. Kitchin explores with ...
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'There is quite a Bloomsbury set, is there not?' 'There is,' said Miss Clame, 'but we're not in it. We're just the tiniest bit west, both spiritually and geographically.' Miss Clame certainly never concealed her limited income nor that she lives with two spinsters, Mavina Trelawny, who nearly climbed Mont Blanc, and Godiva Smith, who coloured pottery, but these were undoubtedly factors preventing her freely declaring her love for Geoffrey Remington. In this elegant, beautifully written novel, C.H.B. Kitchin explores with wit and compassion the frustrations of genteel poverty.
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Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 171pp; Landmark Library, this edition first published 1973; pink d/j with some foxing to spine, minor edgewear.
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Used-Good. Good hardback in Good dust jacket. 1973 new edition, part of Landmark Library series; tightly bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and design to front. Dust jacket not price-clipped with light wear and tiny losses to edges and corners; spine faded; a little discolouration to panels. A few small discolouration spots to page fore-edges; owner's book plate on front paste-down. Otherwise, a clean, tidy copy.