Herald Froy – Can This Be Love? – First Edition 1960
£35.00
A first edition, first printing of Can This Be Love? or Look, Darling, They’ve Written Our Book by Herald Froy, published by Frederick Muller, London in 1960, illustrations by Jill Frencksen. A near fine copy free from internal inscriptions, with spotting to the text block. In a very good unclipped wrapper with bumping to extremities, a closed tear to the front panel, spotting throughout both externally and internally.
Published in 1960, Can This Be Love?; or, Look, Darling, They’ve Written Our Book is a comic guide to courtship, romance and the hazards of modern relationships. Written by Keith Waterhouse and Guy Deghy under the pseudonym Herald Froy, it treats love as a dangerous journey requiring its own rules and warnings. Light, satirical and distinctly of its period, the book combines affectionate observation with mischievous advice, accompanied by illustrations by Jill Francksen throughout it.
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A first edition, first printing of Can This Be Love? or Look, Darling, They’ve Written Our Book by Herald Froy, published by Frederick Muller, London in 1960, illustrations by Jill Frencksen. A near fine copy free from internal inscriptions, with spotting to the text block. In a very good unclipped wrapper with bumping to extremities, a closed tear to the front panel, spotting throughout both externally and internally.
Published in 1960, Can This Be Love?; or, Look, Darling, They’ve Written Our Book is a comic guide to courtship, romance and the hazards of modern relationships. Written by Keith Waterhouse and Guy Deghy under the pseudonym Herald Froy, it treats love as a dangerous journey requiring its own rules and warnings. Light, satirical and distinctly of its period, the book combines affectionate observation with mischievous advice, accompanied by illustrations by Jill Francksen throughout it.
