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ANDERSON VERILY Beware of Children
Rupert Hart-Davis, U.K. 1958. First Edition, Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Very Good. 207 pages, size 8.25 inches tall by 5.25 inches. ' In her first book, Spam Tomorrow, Verily Anderson wrote of her life in the F.A.N.Y.S and of her marriage. In Our Square she told of the early upbringing of her five children and now in Beware of Children she and her husband Donald open a hotel for children in a picturesque, monk-haunted manor in Sussex, using their own family as decoys. Further lures include a dog called Chastity, a number of non-laying hens, fish, a disused donkey and thirty-two white rats. The first victim is a problem child who arrives with double pneumonia, and she is closely followed by a film-star's ballet-dancing step-son (with homicidal instincts), an over-developed Persian schoolgirl, the smug grandson of a North Country alderman and the two enchanting, shoplifting sons of an Arab sheik. Chief among the domestic staff are a highly belligerent matron (who looks and behaves like a horse) and a schizophrenic cook, yellow with age and tobacco-smoke. Donald, who believes in the implicit innocence of all children, insists, just before being called away from home for a fortnight, that there shall be no rules. How twenty-five children only just avoid drowning, strangulation, bursting into flames and being buried alive-and the shattering adventures they do not avoid-is described by their foster mother with a mixture of adoration and despair, for surely a more incongruous collection of children was never gathered together under one historic roof for the purpose of enjoying themselves '. Book - in Very Good bright red boards with silver lettering - light bumping to the extreme ends of the spine. Contents, minor marking to the free front endpaper, faint spotting to the page edges, otherwise clean, bright and tightly bound. Dust Jacket - Near Very Good - a nice bright jacket, a two inch closed tear the front top edge, small amounts of wear to the extreme corners, repairs to verso. An Attractive Copy. Shipped Weight: 750gms-1kgm. Category: Biography & Autobiography Inventory No: 002814.
Offered for GBP 22.50 = appr. US$ 36.81 by: John T. & Pearl Lewis - Book number: 002814
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