"’The biby wasn't there.’
‘Had the gipsies taken it away?’
‘No. There wasn't no biby. She mide it all up.’”
A selection of short stories representing
Rosamond Lehmann at the high level of mastery she reached in The Ballad and the Source. Diverse in theme and setting, the stories are linked by Lehmann's unique talent for observing the world of adults through the solemn eyes of childhood and adolescence.
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1946. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Octavo. Dust jacket in good condition with chipping and edge wear—in protector. Boards and spine clean and bright with minor edge wear. Binding solid and square. Pages tanned. Includes several vintage newspaper clippings of reviews. Wonderful copy.
