Author: YATES, DORNFORD
Title: The Berry Scene
Description: London and Melbourne: Ward. Lock and Co. Ltd 1947. 1st Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good. slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description: 286 pages. 19 cm. Notes: Includes previous owner's inscription. Summary: These stories. written in response to huge popular demand. give us classic Berry Pleydell - Yates' finest comic character - at the top of his form. The first story sees Berry capturing a German spy at a village cricket match in 1914. and things get more bizarre from then on. A self-consciously nostalgic work harking back to more decorous days consisting of tense plotting and high farce of the best kind. Genre: Humourous Fiction. Weight in Kg appr.:

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