On Becoming a Writer

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1947. Very Good/Very Good. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1947. First Edition. Small octavo; publisher's simulated cloth in grey dust jacket lettered in red and black retaining original price (10s. 6.); 228pp. Moderate wear to jacket extremities including tear to spine foot tape-repaired on verso, faint dust-soil to rear jacket panel, textblock a shade toned, else Very Good and sound overall.

A writer's how-to manual by the author of Testament of Youth, chiefly occupied in gently tempering expectations.