Description

• First Printing [Michael Joseph, London, 1958]; 255pp; aquamarine cloth, white titling on spine, slight offsetting on endpapers, age-toned block with faint foxing, an excellent copy; in like illustrated dustjacket, unclipped [18s net], 1cm closed tear on rear, chip at top of spine, a little bumped
• Clift’s first solo book*, detailing her life with husband George Johnson & children on the Greek island of Kalymnos
• With drawings by Cedric Flower
• Mermaid Singing was first published in very small numbers in the US in 1956 & is particularly scarce

*Clift co-authored three novels with Johnston prior to this work