Elspeth Davie : Climbers on the Stair : Edinburgh Tenement Novel 1st 1978

Climbers on the Stair

By Elspeth Davie

Published by hamish Hamilton, London, 1978. First Edition. Hard-to-find title. Hardback with original dust jacket. 170 pages.

CONDITION
A very good first edition in a very good unclipped dust jacket. Boards and spine are good and the pages are clean throughout. No names or writing to the book. A difficult book to find.

Elspeth Mary Davie (née Dryer) (20 March 1918 - 14 November 1995) was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, painter, and art teacher. Her novels include Providings (1965) and Creating a Scene (1971), The Night of the Funny Hats (1980), A Traveller's Room (1985), but she achieved most of her acclaim for her short stories, principally for the collections The Spark (1968) and The Man Who Wanted To Smell Books (2001).

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