Author: BRITTAIN Vera
Title: Testament of Friendship. The Story of Winifred Holtby. IN FULL MOROCCO
Description: Macmillan,, 1940. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made slip-case, a most attactive copy ideal as a gifrt or for presentation. An elegant copy of the loving biography of Holtby by her close friend Vera Brittain. A wide-ranging writer and novelist, Holtby is now probably best remembered for 'South Riding'. Includes accounts of Holtby and Brittain revisiting the WWI battlefield areas in which they both served. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

Keywords: modern first editions, modern firsts, biography, ww1, wwi, great war, brittain, vera brittain, holtby, winifred holtby, south riding, yorkshire


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