Envoy Extraordinary (signed copy)

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1965.

Presentation copy from Vera Brittain, with the following inscription to the first free endpaper: "Presented to the library of the Royal Society of Literature by Vera Brittain / August 1965". First Edition. Hardback with the excellent and unclipped dust-jacket. 180 pages. Colour frontispiece photograph of the author. A fine copy. A study of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and her involvement with the development of modern India. The Royal Society for Literature was founded by King George IV in 1820. Past fellows include Samuel Taylor Coleridge, JRR Tolkien, Thomas Hardy and Kazou Ishiguru.