Special Delivery; A Useful Book For Brand New Mothers

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1960. First Edition. Quarto. 24cm. Publisher's pale blue cloth titled and decorated in white to spine. Dustjacket. 175pp. Light bumping to spine ends, some minor shelfwear to extremities, in a clean, strong dustjacket with some light wear and creasing to the edges, some cosmetic scuffing, and a little soiling to the white rear panel, a very good copy. Internally clean, pink endpapers, illustrated throughout by Dorothea Fox. A series of anecdotes and short pieces dealing with childbirth and motherhood, from a number of literary luminaries, brought together and wrangled into some semblance of order by Shirley Jackson. (Inventory #: 82157)