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Description: Title: The Brontes Went to Woolworth's
Author: Rachel Ferguson
Publisher: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc.
Printing Year: 1932 Stated First Edition In Rare Dustjacket

Condition/Details: Bound in blue cloth with bright gilt embossing, this antique volume is a scarce original edition of this novel by Rachel Ethelreda Ferguson (1892-1957), English author, journalist and novelist.

"A droll and eccentric novel, it is a deranged version of the classic middle class family romance. Instead of a love plot, the novel centres around a family's semi-insane but wondrous curiosity and imagination which transforms their everyday environment into its whimsical double, where they invent alternative lives for pierrots and high court judges (whom they eventually meet in real life). Mainly narrated by the elder daughter, Deirdre; her narration is piercingly intercalated by sections from the point of view of the family governesses, excluded from their games and language. The novel is not simply droll for drollery's sake (not a bad thing in itself), it is also a perceptive study of the power, seductions and pitfalls of the childish imagination." (From review by Maria Alhambra on librarything.com)

The volume shows light external age/wear, and is solidly bound with clean pages. Well-preserved pictorial dustjacket is in mylar cover. The book measures approximately 5 1/2" x 7 3/4" and contains 255 pages. Shipping cost (within the U.S.) for this lot will be: $4.50