Buy this book on-line Turpin, Allan : BEATRICE AND BERTHAMichael Joseph, London, 1966
Hardcover is clean & tight, no markings. Slight edgewear, slightly cocked forward at spine, small stamp inside back cover. Jacket has light edgewear and light soiling to rear, one small tear, not clipped. The story of two sisters: Beatrice, beautiful, intelligent, a misfit in her Victorian family is forced into making an unhappy marriage for money. She leaves her husband and finally settles in Paris. Bertha, plain, athletic, Philistine, remains after a number of love affairs a spinster, and keeps home for her autocratic father. The sisters are temperamentally antagonistic, and Beatrice suspects Bertha of having had a sinister influence on the failure of her marriage. Nevertheless, Beatrice is gradually drawn back towards her betrayer.....[400-noto]; 8vo, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Turpin, Allan : BEATRICE AND BERTHA. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including antiquarian books, livres illustrées, atlases, used books and incunabula. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |