First English edition, first printing. xii, 484pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine heel. Burgundy coloured endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Likely unread. Dust jacket very lightly chipped along top edge, price unclipped. 8vo. Definitive biography of the writer Antonia White which charts her ambivalence towards her parents, three marriages, lovers and friendships, secret war work, harrowing relationship with her two daughters and her struggle with manic depression.
