The Passion Flower Hotel.
London: Cape, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 189pp. Contents clean and unmarked - but for a small faint stain to the inner margin at p154-5. In the original binding of dark pink textured boards, corners sharp; spine slightly faded, and with a pale edge at the foot, and a pale patch at the head, corresponding to a tear to the jacket. In the protected unclipped red jacket, spine slightly faded, head frayed and with a closed tear. Author's details to rear panel show the back of her head and reveal that she was then at a finishing school. Not a brilliant copy, and not for younger readers: a transgressive romp of overheated intrigues at a girls' school, and involving boys: told in the first person, and with panache! Good / good. Item #19621100
Price: £60.00