NORMAN, Sylva.

£500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Cat Without Substance. First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the month of publication, "Nellie Grange, who prods the sleepiest mule into activity - from Sylva Norman. 31 August 1931". Set in post-war London, this is Norman's second novel. Norman collaborated with Edmund Blunden on their 1932 novel We'll Shift Our Ground, and the two married the following year.

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