Literature & Fiction / Literature Prose & Linguistics / First Cuckoo: Letters to The Times , 1900-75 by Gregory, Kenneth

• Book Title: First Cuckoo: Letters to The Times , 1900-75
• Author: Gregory, Kenneth
• ISBN: 004808025X
• Publisher: Allen & U
• Year Published: April 29, 1976
• Our Price: £20.90 GBP ($41.38 USD)
• Description: Allen & Unwin, 1976: first edition in hardcover: 350 pages including index. Synopsis: a collection of entertaining correspondence published in The Times during the the first 75 years of the 20th century. Letters include those from Conan Doyle on military intervention; Neville Chamberlain on the grey wagtail; Winston Churchill on corporal punishment; Bernard Berenso on art forgeries; H Wells on strikebreaking; Thomas Hardy's recollection of J. S. Mill; T. S. Eliot and Malcolm Muggeridge on television; Vita Sackville West on stamps as wallpaper; Field Marshal Montgomery on skiing; John Masefield on the white slave trade: A A Milne on bodyline bowling: Marie Stopes on marriage; P. G. Wodehouse on the was that she in; Julian Huxley on rhinos; Nora lofts on baby battering; Barbara Walton on economic nonsense; Max Beerbohm, Osbert Sidwell, and Robert Graves on forms of address; J. C. Squire on the Loch Ness monster; Yehudi Menuhin on London; and many others on unpredictable subjects. Condition: dust cover edges slightly stressed- overall very clean and good.
• Condition: Used- Very Good
• Dustcover: Yes
• Binding: Hardback
• Type: Used Books

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