Author:
Norah Purcell, wife of Victor Purcell (1896-1965), University Lecturer in Far Eastern History, Cambridge (author of the T. S. Eliot parody 'The Sweeniad') [John and Edward Bumpus, London booksellers]
Publication details:
18 September 1931; 6 Ridley Park, Singapore, Straits Settlements.
8vo, 2 pp. 40 lines of text. Stamped and docketed by Bumpus. Good, on lightly aged and creased paper. A splendid diatribe. She is enclosing a cheque for £5 and asks for 'books to the value of thirty shillings to be placed to her account. 'The books written for by me some time ago have arrived; but I was greatly displeased to receive "abridged" editions of the two childrens' [sic] books ordered - "The Wide Wide Word" and "Queechy".
