Allegra Sander; Vyvyan Holland [translator] — Men: A Dialogue between Women

London, The Cresset Press, 1955. First edition. Cloth. A smart first translated edition of this essay on the relationship between the sexes, with decorations from Mervyn Peake. First edition. With decorations by Mervyn Laurence Peake, an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. An artful dialogue between two cultivated French women on the complex relationship between the sexes, with reference to love and marriage. Written by Allegra Sander, a French writer. Translated by Vyvyan Beresford Holland, an English author and translator who was the son of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear only. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also very smart with light wear to the extremities and the odd small closed tear. Minor sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: Mervyn Peake. Fine/Very Good Indeed.