Private Fires by Kathleen Nott - 1960

Heinemann, 1960. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1960. First Edition. 300 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over grey cloth boards and lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil and pen inscriptions to front free endpaper. Moderate tape marks to pastedowns and free endpapers. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Moderate tanning to interior flaps, panels and spine. Tape marks to flaps and panels. Visible wear marks to jacket.

London: Heinemann, 1960. Date inside both covers and initial on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked grey cloth boards, slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. 298pp. Novel set among the ruins of the Blitz in which the formidable central character is Mrs Alice Hand, the sworn enemy of the welfare state and a shocking individualist.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8 x 5.25 inches.

London: Heinemann, 1960 . First edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8" by 5". None. A very smart, scarce first edition of this novel telling the story of Mrs. Alice Hand, by Kathleen Nott. First edition, in the publisher's original cloth binding with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Written by British poet, novelist, editor and critic, Kathleen Nott. This particular work was her third novel. 'Private Fires' tells the story of Mrs. Alice Hand, landlady of her dilapidated house in South London where she houses a number of interesting characters, including the orphan country boy Len. Alice survived the Blitz and is determined to build up her fortunes. In the publisher's original cloth binding with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, lovely, with minor shelf wear only. Dust wrapper is excellent, with light edge wear and slight sunning, mainly to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean throughout. Fine