Decorative Dust Jackets
"Museum Pieces" 1954 PLOMER, William
$75
PLOMER, William
[282] pp.
The Noonday Press
1954
Second Printing
8 1/4"" x 5 5/8"
Jacket design by Leo Manso
Susannah Mountfaucon and Toby d'Arfey are 'museum pieces' because neither in the 1920s nor in the 1930s nor during the Second World War will they adapt themselves to change. They are still Edwardian in spirit and extravagance.
Their life and that of the extraordinary people around themes described by a young widow who comes to know and love them