The Perfect Debutante

[Adrian Porter. Eileen McGrath]

An amusing collection of verse acting as a 'hilarious guide to the pitfalls and pleasures of the social season'. Adrian Porter's poems on various events in the debutante's calendar are accompanied by Eileen McGrath's witty line drawings. A sequel to The Perfect Pest (1936).



Adrian Porter. Illustrated by Eileen McGrath. Collins. London. 1937. First edition. Hardback, octavo; black-cloth-backed yellow boards, dust jacket. 61 pages. Line illustrations throughout the text. English. 210 x 145mm. 0.25kg. . Very good, in very good dust jacket; light wear to jacket, ruffling and light wear to forecorners and spine ends, light soiling, not price-clipped; light spotting to pages, neat ex libris bookplate of D. A. Webber to front pastedown.