The Bay Of The Nightingales by Summers, Essie - 1970

London: Mills & Boon. Good in Good dust jacket. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 026351479X . Previous owner's signature. Corner clipped from front free endpaper and half title leaf. Tears and creasing to margins of dustjacket. 3/4" missing at head and tail of dustjacket spine. 1/2" abrasion to front panel of dustjacket. Dustjacket is price-clipped. Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 188 pages + [3] pages advertisements. Red papered boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 183mm x 121mm. "Margot Chesterton packed the Chinese armorial mug with all her usual care, her fingers lovingly fitting the tissue paper into the curves of the handle with a touch that was a caress in itself, but her mind, naturally, was busy with the coming dinner-hour interview." - the opening paragraph. .