Dear Merv…Dear Bill (Signed)

First edition. 194pp. Blue faux leather-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Bumped spine ends. Light blue end papers. Signed and inscribed “For Ted, Who helped so much. Mervyn Haisman May ’92”. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket mirrors book damage, sun bleached spine, price unclipped. 8vo. A book of contrasts; the peace of rural Wales and the violence of London, UK during the Blitz, it is an exchange of letters between two South-East London, UK schoolboys. Merv is evacuated to a large country house in South Wales, while Bill remains in London, UK and goes through the Blitz.