Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.Shipping and insurance charges are additional. Next-day or second-day air service is available upon request. We ship worldwide and all packages will be sent via UPS or Federal Express unless another carrier is requested. We do ask that if you are not satisfied with the item, you contact us by phone as quickly as possible and return the item within ten days. For first-time buyers, we prefer a credit card and we will only ship to the billing address on the card.
We accept MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover, checks and wire transfer. For some items, we can also email digital photographs.Īll of our items are guaranteed as described and are shipped on approval. If you are interested in an item from one of our catalogues or our website and would like more information before ordering it, please give us a call one of our salespeople will be happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you might have. Illustrations by Mary Thomson.īook fine slight edge-wear, small closed edge tears to scarce dust jacket.
Preceded by the virtually unobtainable 1938 English edition. Watson's Miss Pettigrew finally reached the screen in the 2008 film starring Francis McDormand and Amy Adams, winning critical praise as a "delightfully frothy drawing-room comedy" ( Salon). The film had been cast-Billie Burke, who played Glinda, the Good Witch of the North in The Wizard of Oz, was to have been Miss Pettigrew" ( The Independent). 'They were horrified,' she recalled years later… I can remember to this day saying: 'You're wrong- Miss Pettigrew is a winner… It was an immediate success." The outbreak of WWII disrupted plans for a "proposed Hollywood film version. Watson's publishers at first rejected it. There are three lovers, cocaine and cocktails for breakfast… Miss Pettigrew, Watson's third novel, was completed in 1935. Over the next 24 hours, Miss Pettigrew helps the actress out of a series of sticky situations. Octavo, original gray cloth, original dust jacket.įirst American edition of Watson’s critically praised third novel, rediscovered and adapted to the screen in the 2008 film starring Francis McDormand and Amy Adams, in scarce dust jacket.īritish writer Winifred Watson rose to "literary prominence in 1938 with her novel Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day and again over 60 years later, when the book was rediscovered… Miss Guinevere Pettigrew, the central character of Miss Pettigrew, is a middle-aged governess who is mistakenly sent by her agency to work for a dissolute actress and nightclub singer.
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