Dear Merv...Dear Bill (Signed)

Author(s): Haisman, Mervyn; Snellgrove, L E

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Very Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Dust Jacket Condition:	Very Good
Edition:	1st Edition
Signature:	Signed by Author(s)
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	Gomer
Publication Year:	1992
ISBN:	9780863838903
Book ID:	005951
Catalogue(s):	Autobiography and Biography ◇ War, Military History and Weapons

First edition. 194pp. Blue faux leather-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Bumped spine ends. Light blue end papers. Signed and inscribed "For Ted, Who helped so much. Mervyn Haisman May '92". Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket mirrors book damage, sun bleached spine, price unclipped. 8vo. A book of contrasts; the peace of rural Wales and the violence of London, UK during the Blitz, it is an exchange of letters between two South-East London, UK schoolboys. Merv is evacuated to a large country house in South Wales, while Bill remains in London, UK and goes through the Blitz.

Keywords:

evacuation second world war childhood london wales