Lynne Reid Banks – The L-Shaped Room – First Edition 1960 – SIGNED
£250.00
The L-Shaped Room – SIGNED by the Author
London Chatto and Windus 1960
A first edition, first printing of ‘The L-Shaped Room’ published by Chatto and Windus in 1960. Signed by the author on the title-page, previous owner signature, original cloth, dust wrapper with short closed tear at foot of lower joint. Near fine in near fine unclipped wrapper.
Banks’s striking first novel, centred on an unmarried pregnant woman in a shabby London boarding house, was an important treatment of female independence, sexuality and social judgement in early-1960s Britain. A key novel of post-war domestic and social realism, uncommon signed.
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London Chatto and Windus 1960
A first edition, first printing of ‘The L-Shaped Room’ published by Chatto and Windus in 1960. Signed by the author on the title-page, previous owner signature, original cloth, dust wrapper with short closed tear at foot of lower joint. Near fine in near fine unclipped wrapper.
Banks’s striking first novel, centred on an unmarried pregnant woman in a shabby London boarding house, was an important treatment of female independence, sexuality and social judgement in early-1960s Britain. A key novel of post-war domestic and social realism, uncommon signed.
