Cooper Jilly Dame (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, third impression published later the same year, a tribute to the author's popularity. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners bruised, not price clipped (£4.95),no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 287pp. Describing herself as 'upper middle class', Jilly claims that snobbery is very much alive and thriving! Meet her hilarious characters! People like Harry Stow-Crat, Mr and Mrs Nouveau-Richards, Samantha and Gideon Upward, and Jen Teale and her husband Brian. Roar with laughter at her delightfully horribly unfair observations on their everyday pretensions, their sexual courtships, choice of furnishings, clothes, education, food, careers and ambitions. For they will all remind you of people that you know! Of its time. Jacket by Theo Bergstrom, illustrations by Timothy Jacques (illustrator). …

One page, 8vo, good condition. Text: "Thank you so much for that absolutely adorable letter. It made me feel very happy and much safer. Of course I'll come to Edinburgh. I'm just bloody tired at the moment. | Hunter [Davies] isa complete star and so are you and I've just always admired you so much. For yoyu to say those really sweet things to me, made me very tearful but happy. | But also Ronnie Ferguson thought Hunter was absolutely wonderful, as he should have done. I do hope to see you soon and I hope you'll be in Edinburgh as well." See Image. …