Sailor's Return & Beany-Eye

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1948. First edition. First printing of first UK paperback edition. A little wavy but otherwise this is a bright, tight copy. 221 pages. Subsequently translated into a Covent Garden ballet. Picture of author on back cover. One of the Bloomsbury group. This is an early study of race relations when a black woman comes to a rural Dorset… Read more about this item

London: Penguin, 1948. 1st. ed. thus PBK. No. 672 Orange. 221pp. Half title torn in half, lower part missing. Chipped foot spine. Reading copy.

Penguin Books. Pages faded and edge worn, small scratch on page edges, binding tight, pages lightly tanned, else good+. . Good. Soft cover. 1948.