London War Notes 1939 - 1945

PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York.

BINDING
Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Red colour block to top page edges.

BOOK CONDITION
Staining to page edges. Otherwise, printed pages are clean and largely unmarked. Small newspaper clipping taped to recto of flyleaf. Inscription to previous owner on half-title page.

DUST JACKET
In gloss paper. Somewhat scratched and tattered at edges.

EDITION
First U.S. edition, 1971.

DESCRIPTION
Frontispiece drawing by David Low of the Evening Standard. 8vo, 378 pp.

SYNOPSIS
For the six years of WWII, Mollie Panter-Downes covered the war in her "Letter from London"  for The New Yorker magazine. These fortnightly reports are compiled here by New Yorker editor William Shawn.