Talbot (Laura) Barcelona Road
£150
London, Macmillan, 1953.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket.
A penetrating satire on the life of a street in a seaside town, capturing the seedy gentility of the permanent residents of Barcelona Road.
In stock
Inkstamp and bookseller’s small label to front pastedown; jacket a little chipped and worn with loss to head of spine.
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