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A Brush with Death written by Sheila Pim
1950 British hardback first edition, first impression released in London by Hodder & Stoughton A VG++ book in unclipped dust cover The book has clean cloth, straight spine and very solid binding No owner names, or stamps of any kind The wrapper is unclipped at 9/6 as called for Minor wear around spine ends, light shelf wear to extremities Synopsis
A nice copy with fabulous artwork, really different, highly thought of author and the books are tricky to find.
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DUBLIN is a great place for Fine Art auctions ; the kind of auction, I mean, where you have oil paintings and \vine coolers and candlesticks and moustache cups and coasters and old china toilet sets, but not golf clubs or motor mowers. The contents of the old " big houses " in which, as may be gathered from many novels and plays about Ireland, everybody except the peasantry at one time used to live, are now being turned out and transferred, by way of the sale rooms, to the modern labour-saving villas in garden suburbs in which the whole population will be housed in a few years' time. The crowd admitted to the Dawson Hall " by Catalogue only " one chill February afternoon, was the usual blend of professionals and amateurs: dealers, serious collectors, and casual bargain hunters. Some were smart and some shabby. Their outward appearance could not be taken as any indication of the state of their bank accounts, and it was no surprise to the auctioneer if some of the most down-at-heel customers made the highest bids. Among the smarter women were an evident mother and daughter, sitting side by side, sharing a catalogue which had admitted the two of them, which showed they were not people to be carelessly extravagant, although their clothes were nice. The daughter was pretty. She had soft fair hair, grey eyes, neat wrists and ankles, and a complexion only rivalled in that room by a china shepherdess who had been auctioned earlier on and was now clasped in the arms of a clergyman. If, as seemed probable, her mother |
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