Lynne Reid Banks — The L-Shaped Room

London, Chatto & Windus, 1960. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this bestselling novel by Lynne Reid Banks, following a pregnant unmarried woman as she moves to London. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'The L-Shaped Room' follows a young woman, Jane Graham, in the late 1950s, as she finds herself pregnant with no desire to marry the father. Graham moves into a run-down boarding house in London, meeting a variety of colourful characters, all the while being looked down upon for being unmarried and pregnant.This was Lynne Reid Banks' first adult novel, and proved to be an instant success and best-seller. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine, with very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Light mark to the fore edge, and spots to the fore edge and endpapers. Dust wrapper is lightly edge worn. Backstirp is lightly sunned. Minor marks to the wraps and to the spine, including spots and heavier marks to the reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.