DEAR AUSTEN

First edition. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original white cloth with burgundy titles to the spine. In dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight with a tiny faint mark to the edge of the lower board. The contents are clean and bright throughout and free of previous owners' inscriptions and stamps. In the better than very good dustwrapper, which has the slightest rubbing and dustiness to the edges. Not price-clipped (£10.00 to lower front flap).

A superb association copy inscribed by the author to the poet Mairi Macinnes and her literary critic husband John McCormick in blue ink on the title page, reading "To Mairi & John / with much love, Nina / [printed name crossed out] / Nina Bawden". This intimate memoir from the beloved and prolific author of the award winning children's novels Carrie's War and The Peppermint Pig deals with the 2002 Potter's Bar train crash that took her husband's life and left her severely injured at age 77.