The Present and the Past: a new novel

by Ivy Compton-Burnett

$25 · Offered by Bolerium Books

New York: Julian Messner, 1953. Hardcover. 224p., very good first US edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket. Her novels were mostly written in dialogue form. Compton-Burnett was the domestic companion of Margaret Jourdain. More

• Binding: Hardcover

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