Book Description

Very uncommon title from this difficult to find author..her first novel. Tells of a fifteen year old schoolboy’s fascination for one of his mother’s guests , a married forty year old, school mistress . They come together secretly but pressures of circumstances ruin the relationship.
Dealer Notes
Villa Gilbert is perhaps best known for her novel of lesbian love “ A Jingle Jangle song” published in the early sixties .
Author Mariana Villa Gilbert
Date 1963
Binding Hardback in dustwrapper
Publisher Chatto and Windus
Illustrator Attractive dustwrapper design by Carol Barker
Condition Very good in very good ( unclipped ) dustwrapper. Minor marks and wear to d/w and small rust (?) mark to rear panel of wrapper.
Pages 160

Price: £195.00

Offered by Black Cat Bookshop

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