With Gently Smiling Jaws

by Shirley Maddock

Collins, 1963 [First Edition], hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing to edges and corners, previous owners inscriptions on front end-paper, minor denting to bottom front cover and bottom spine, price-clipped dust-jacket shows some edge and shelf wear with rubbing, creasing, small chips and tears, minor discolouration (see photographs)

All the young female Willises married, settled down, raised families and wrote lots of newsy letters.  Catherine didn't.  She was a maverick.  She wanted fun, excitement, a career, travel.  She got them all, and a lot more, when she went home from New Zealand to New York and started work in commercial T.V."