A charming and witty memoir of growing up in late Victorian Cambridge written by the granddaughter of Charles Darwin
The tale of a family’s desperate journey across a collapsing Britain after a virus wipes out all forms of grass
were often thought to be the creations of Jane Austen’s imagination
clean and with the slightest of edgewear
with mild bumping to corners and head and tail of spine
The Book of the Flower Fairies Agatha Christie A charming and witty memoirThe Book of the Flower Fairies, by Cicely M. Barker. London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited, [Undated], but known to be 1927. First edition consisting of Flower Fairies of the Spring, Flower Fairies of the Summer and Flower Fairies of the Autumn. Publisher's olive green cloth, gilt titles to spine, gilt titles, illustration of a fairy, and blind embossed single ruling to front cover; no dust jacket. Externally with wear to extremities and covers, a