[Signed] The Ginger Griffin (Rare Signed Copy) Bridge,Ann [Very Good] [Hardcover]

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This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in Publisher's original orange or light tan coloured cloth with white title lettering to spine in a Good Dust-Jacket with one closed tear to the head of spine,some silverfish nibbling is apparent to the top section of the front cover fore-edge (appriox 1.3 inches in length) Not price clipped with 7s 6d net to the front flap and this copy has been signed by Ann Bridge on the front Endpaper and dated Dublin Jan 14 1944.Contents remain clean internally with just a touch of browning to the endpapers.Ann Bridge [real name Mary Anne O'Malley] who began by exploiting the goings on of the British Foreign Office community in Peking, China, where she lived for two years with her diplomat husband.Her novels combine courtship plots with vividly-realised settings and demure social satire.Ann Bridge also wrote thrillers centred on a female amateur detective.She gave a talk in Dublin in 1944 so it seems likely that is was perhaps signed at this event,Rare Signed Title 8vo with one newspaper review by Clemence Dane tipped in at the rear of the book,378pp First Edition 1st Impression