Author: Strachey, Lytton Illust. by Erte:
Title: Ermyntrude and Esmeralda.
Description: London, Anthony Blond, 1969 1st Ed., oversized hard cover pink cloth bds, Nr Fine, unclipped dust jacket completely enclosed in protective film, not a library bk, small brown patch to upper wrap near hinge otherwise VG+, contents clean and tight, many b/w drawings by Erte, pp48. Two upper class Edwardian seventeen year old girls write letters to each other, pledging to discover all they can "...about the manifold mysteries of sex, and report their discoveries to each other..." Written with wry humour it is as "...dainty, fresh and giddy as it was when it reduced the Bloomsbury set to heaps of giggles."

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