THE BRIGHT TWENTIES

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1970, 1^st.  ISBN 0-340-10635-2.  Hard cover, 424 pages including Index.  Very good plus; very light corner and edge wear, binding sound with headbands, red top-stain.  Price-clipped dust jacket shows some edge and cover wear, no tears.  Interior clean and unmarked; illustrated with black & white photo plates.  Third volume in Cecil Robert’s autobiography covering the years 1920 to 1929.  ‘It is a pageant of people and events, written with characteristic style, zest and frankness.  After the holocaust of the First World War, the Twenties seemed to promise an era of peace and prosperity.  The author’s own career expressed the spirit of a new age.’ (from front flap)