One Pair of Hands - 1949 - Monica Dickens (1915-1992)

• Monica Enid Dickens (1915–1992) was an English writer, the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens.

Monica Dickens - One Pair of Hands; with a foreword by Compton Mackenzie - London, Michael Joseph Ltd., 1949 - 7th edition of the original edition anno 1939 - 224p. - Hardcover: cloth binding - 13.80 x 20 cm - Reasonable/good copy: binding intact, handwritten dedication on front flyleaf and title page, spine cloth missing, boards with stains and signs of use, handwritten title on front cover (spine title missing!)

• Foreword: Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972) was a Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist. (Source: Wikipedia)
• Story: One Pair of Hands (1939), her first book, described life in the kitchens of Kensington. It was the first of a group of semi autobiographies of which Mariana (1940), technically a novel, was one. 'My aim is to entertain rather than instruct,' she wrote. 'I want readers to recognize life in my books.' (Source: goodreads)

Shipping or collecting possible.
(EA-layer 10)