MARGARET LANE. — Purely for Pleasure. (WITH ALS)

Hamish Hamilton Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xi, 234pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine and with the publisher's vibrant red top edge stain. A fine copy in fractionally mark and dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A three-page introduction by the author precedes twenty essays, the subjects including Flora Thompson, W. H. Hudson, Dr. Johnson, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Mrs. Gaskell, Mrs. Beeton, and Beatrix Potter. Laid-in is a hand written letter from the author's daughter, Selina Hastings., Fine, Very Good