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The Diary of Iris Vaughan – A 1979 Howard Timmins hardcover reprint of this South African diary, first published in 1958. Bound in clean brown cloth and kept in its original illustrated dust jacket. A very good copy, the jacket with a short tear and small chips to the edges.
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The Diary of Iris Vaughan is a South African diary first published in 1958. This copy is a later reprint of the Howard Timmins edition, reprinted in this edition in 1969, 1971, 1973, 1976 and 1979, and printed by Citadel Press of Lansdowne, Cape. It is bound in brown cloth with the title and the Timmins name lettered on the spine and the publisher’s device on the front board.
The Diary of Iris Vaughan is presented in the original illustrated dust jacket, which carries a portrait of a girl in a broad straw hat decorated with flowers, printed in sepia on a cream ground with the title in red. Inside, the diary is preceded by the author’s acknowledgements.
With five reprints in this edition alone between 1969 and 1979, The Diary of Iris Vaughan clearly kept its readers over the decades. It is a personal record rather than a formal history, which gives it a direct, everyday quality.
Condition – Very Good in a Good+ dust jacket
1979 reprint in the publisher’s brown cloth. The cloth is clean and bright, with only light wear to the board edges and corners. The original illustrated dust jacket is present, with good, fresh colours. It has a short tear at the head of the front panel near the spine fold, small chips and light rubbing to the spine ends and corners, and short splits along the inner folds of the flaps. The text block is clean, with only a small spot at the inner margin of the copyright page. The binding is tight and sound.
