Little Innocents. Childhood Reminiscences

[Rex Whistler]


A cast of creatives of the 1930s cast their minds back to their childhoods and recall treasured anecdotes and memories. The interest comes in comparing these youthful recollections with the eventual lives of the recaller. Writers include Ethel Smyth, Lord Berners, Harold Nicolson, Dorothy Wellesley, Sylvia Pankhurst, Rose Macaulay, Robert Byron, Nina Hamnett, John Betjeman, Evelyn Waugh, Vita Sackville-West, Brian Howard and many more. Rex Whistler's pastoral idyll, populated with putti, graces the dust jacket.

 [Whistler & Fuller. The Work of Rex Whistler. No. 448]


Preface by Alan Pryce-Jones. Dust jacket design by Rex Whistler. Cobden-Sanderson. London. 1932. First edition. Hardback, octavo; green cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. viii, 124 pages. Dust jacket designed by Rex Whistler. English. 220 x 145mm. 0.35kg. . Very good, in very good dust jacket; light wear to jacket, slight toning to spine, slight soiling to spine and rear panel, light ruffling to head of spine, price-clipped; dustiness to top edge, bookseller's label to front pastedown, previous owner's signature to front endpaper.