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IRONSIDE, Virginia SKU: 20116 Barcode:
Stock No. 20116
Authors: Virginia, IRONSIDE
London: Secker and Warburg, 1964
First Edition. Light blue hard cloth with silvertone title lettering to spine. With the excellent and unclipped dust-jacket depicting a fashionable young woman sauntering through the streets of Chelsea in head scarf, photographed by Shaun Gordon. Ends of backstrip of jacket rubbed and split to lower inch of joint with rear panel. No old inscriptions or other internal markings. A fine copy in the VG dust-jacket. Decent copy of this scarce debut novel by the journalist Virginia Ironside (born 1944). Its London, early Sixties, and a cultural revolution is breaking out... young people are making themselves seen and heard following a couple of decades of post-war austerity. For 18- year-old art student Harriet and her Chelsea friends this amounts to one thing: being 'in'. The King's Road swarms with people wanting to 'see and be seen'; upper-class boys with faux-Cockney accents party with models, beatniks and fashion photographers; teddy boys are good people to nod to in the street; transport caffs are the must-go places for food, and everyone has a friend who's black.
