Author: DIANA ATHILL
Title: contributes six stories to the anthology New Authors Short Story One.
Description: Hutchinson, 'New Authors' series, London, 1961. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 238pp + [ii] list of publications. Black cloth lettered in white, red and blue at the spine. A small bump to the tip of one corner. A very good copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, a little dust soiled and rubbed at the extremities and with several tiny slivers of loss from the spine panel ends. These early Athill stories (which precede the publication of her first book) are 'Buried', 'Mellow Fruitfulness', 'No Laughing Matter', 'For Rain it Hath a Friendly Sound', 'Something Lost' and her 1958 Observer short story winner 'The Return'. The other contributors are Maurice Duggan (four stories), Maurice Gill (two stories) and C.K.Steed (one story). Very Good/Good.

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