Miss Hargreaves. A Fantasy

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1940. First edition. [viii], 310, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth. Near fine in very good pictorial dust jacket (a few small scuffs at ends of spine panel), price sticker 9/- Net. First edition. [viii], 310, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A young chap who works in his father’s bookshop and plays the organ in a small cathedral town idly invents an eccentric elderly lady poet while on holiday. She promptly shows up in person, with cockatoo, dog, and portable hip bath: things soon go haywire. A minor classic.