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"Merry Hall" 1954 NICHOLS, Beverley
$125
NICHOLS, Beverley
[319] pp.
E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
1954
Second Printing
8 1/4" x 5 3/4"
w/ drawings by William McLaren
*Jacket height cropped*
First in a trilogy, Merry Hall is the account of the restoration of a house and garden in post-war England. Though Mr. Nichols's horticultural undertaking is serious, his writing is high-spirited, riotously funny, and, at times, deliciously malicious.