A Hind Let Loose
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1936.
A farce about a journalist who, by dint of creative scheduling, makes a living writing editorials for the two morning newspapers in a Northern English city -- one staunchly Tory and one devotedly Radical (as Radical was defined in 1910). Our hero is so deft a writer, so skilled at saying anything (or indeed nothing) at length, that he's become indispensable to the owners of both papers, neither of whom suspects that he is also at work for the hated rival. Then comes the night that the Radical paper's building catches fire, forcing it to seek space in its opposite number's office to put out the next edition...
Condition grading: Very Good. Small mark to centre of spine. Stain to bottom right corner of front cover. Some spine splitting to bottom of spine. White mark to top right corner of rear cover. Usual page tanning for age. Includes Fair dust jacket. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1936.
A farce about a journalist who, by dint of creative scheduling, makes a living writing editorials for the two morning newspapers in a Northern English city -- one staunchly Tory and one devotedly Radical (as Radical was defined in 1910). Our hero is so deft a writer, so skilled at saying anything (or indeed nothing) at length, that he's become indispensable to the owners of both papers, neither of whom suspects that he is also at work for the hated rival. Then comes the night that the Radical paper's building catches fire, forcing it to seek space in its opposite number's office to put out the next edition...
Condition grading: Very Good. Small mark to centre of spine. Stain to bottom right corner of front cover. Some spine splitting to bottom of spine. White mark to top right corner of rear cover. Usual page tanning for age. Includes Fair dust jacket. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin 1st Edition, published 1936.
A farce about a journalist who, by dint of creative scheduling, makes a living writing editorials for the two morning newspapers in a Northern English city -- one staunchly Tory and one devotedly Radical (as Radical was defined in 1910). Our hero is so deft a writer, so skilled at saying anything (or indeed nothing) at length, that he's become indispensable to the owners of both papers, neither of whom suspects that he is also at work for the hated rival. Then comes the night that the Radical paper's building catches fire, forcing it to seek space in its opposite number's office to put out the next edition...
Condition grading: Very Good. Small mark to centre of spine. Stain to bottom right corner of front cover. Some spine splitting to bottom of spine. White mark to top right corner of rear cover. Usual page tanning for age. Includes Fair dust jacket. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
