Dangerous French Mistress and Other Stories by Colwin, Laurie - 1975

E-79: Chatto & Windus. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Chatto and Windus, London, UK. 1975. 136 pages. Signed and inscribed by Laurie Colwin on the FFEP. First Edition/First Printing. DJ (with Dust jacket design by Philippa Branson) has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Colwin's first book, a collection of short stories published in America as "Passion and Affect." The short story is by definition almost no more than a sidelong glance at people who disappear before you manage to remember their names -- like Laurie Colwin's almost always attractive characters who are "on the verge" of their lives and may not get any place at all. Or just move on some place else with someone else. This is a first collection with nothing unfinished about it at all (a good many of the stories have had New Yorker or Mademoiselle or Redbook appearances) E-79; 9 X 6 X 1 inches; 136 pages; Signed by Author .