Lk.5.05
Lkk.4.24 (copy 2)
Little innocents : childhood reminiscences / by Dame Ethel Smyth, Lord Berners, Harold Nicolson ... [and 27 others] ; preface by Alan Pryce-Jones.
London : Cobden-Sanderson, 1932.
124 p. ; 22 cm.
"Printed in England for R. Cobden-Sanderson Ltd. by the Shenval Press"--t.p. verso.
Publisher's green cloth binding ; gilt lettering on spine ; pictorial dust-jacket printed in green.
Preface / Alan Pryce-Jones -- "Only..." / Dame Ethel Smyth -- Neighbours / Lord Berners -- "Pure in Heart" / Harold Nicolson -- Infancy / Dorothy Wellesley -- Winning the Steeplechase at Winchester / Lord Alfred Douglas -- Bells on the Breeze / Edmund Blunden -- Parental Vagaries / Baroness Ravensdale -- My Grandmother's House / James Laver -- Those Elfin Days / Sylvia Pankhurst -- The Fear of God / H.J. Massingham -- Villa Macolai / Rose Macaulay -- Fear in Fancy Dress / Edward Sackville-West -- From two to Ten! / Alice, Lady Lowther -- The Tail / Sonia Keppel -- All These I Learnt / Robert Byron -- Early Days / Princess Antoine Bibesco -- Talk of the Devil / C.B. Cochran -- Some Children in the 'Sixties / Louisa, Countess of Antrim -- "Upper School" / John Betjeman -- What I Wore in the 'Nineties / Nina Hamnett -- The Marseillaise / J.B. Morton -- The Curse of the Horse Race / Evelyn Waugh -- Shameful Reminiscence / V. Sackville-West -- The Tragic Years / E.M. Delafield -- First Disobedience and the Fruit / Raymond Mortimer -- "Mysterium, Tremendum, Fascinaus" / Lord Clonmore -- Going to Heaven / Brian Howard -- Early Snobberies / Lady Longford -- A Seventeenth Century Survival / Gerald Heard -- Childhood / J.C. Squire.
Copy 1: Bequeathed by Kenneth Rose, 2014.
Copy 1: Signed by Mrs A. Goatcher on front pastedown and by Kenneth Rose on front endpaper.
Copy 2: Ownership inscription of J. Griffiths, Liverpool.
Copy 1: Wanting the dust-jacket.
Copy 2: Dust-jacket in clear plastic protective wrapper.
Copy 1: Ms. footnote by Kenneth Rose on p. 83: "John Betjeman once told me that 'Crossman' was really Denys Wilkinson, the Eton master".
Children Reminiscing.
Children Great Britain Biography.
Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century.
Great Britain Social life and customs 20th century.
Cobden-Sanderson, Richard publisher.
Rose, Kenneth, 1924 - ? donor.
England London.
B35154