The Greengage Summer.

GODDEN, Margaret Rumer.

$200.00

Item Number: 110805

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1958.

First edition, advance review copy of Margaret Rumer Godden’s story of a young English woman’s coming of age during a summer holiday in France. Octavo, original cloth. With the publisher’s advance review copy slip laid in. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

English author Margaret Rumer Godden published more than 60 fiction and nonfiction books throughout her career, nine of which have been made into films including the present volume. The Greengage Summer was adapted into the 1961 British drama film of the same name directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Kenneth More and Susannah York in her first leading role.