JOYCE GRENFELL. Janie Hampton. — Joyce Grenfell. A biography. (INSCRIBED)

John Murray, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Anne [Harvey] love from Janie (Hampton)" 8vo. xvii, 381pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with sixty-seven black and white photographs and reproductions. The tiniest trace of toning to the paperstock, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Publisher's press release laid-in alongside various ephemeral items and two postcards from the author, the first to the recipient of her inscription, Anne Harvey, and the second to Harvey's partner, Gervase [Farjeon] the son of Herbert Farjeon, who was instrumental in Grenfell's early career and is mentioned over a dozen times in the text., Near Fine, Near Fine