Buy this book on-line BAKER**, DENYS VAL: : The Tenant And Other StoriesLONDON.WILLIAM KIMBER,1985. ISBN 0718305752.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Very slightly cocked,fore-edges lightly aged.8vo, 187pp,a collection of 18 short stories by the author.
Laurie knew at once when their lodger had
packed and gone,leaving June and her children to fend for themselves in the basement flat.It was nothing said or described: just a feeling in the air.What happens then,and how it affects his happy marriage is thoughtfully evoked by Denys Val Baker's perceptive and gentle pen in this opening story of his new collection.
Baker died in July,1984 and this is his last,of 13,novel published posthumously.
Publisher no longer in existence,ceased trading late 1980S,so book is now out of print and uncommon in this high a grade.
William Kimber himself,worked for Hutchinson for about 17 years before founding "William Kimber & Co" in 1950.It specialized in aviation, war memoirs,autobiographies and motor-racing titles until 1973 when "Haunted Cornwall" took off and the Ghost Stories became another specialty.The company was bought by Thorsons in 1988,and therefore ceased publishing under that name.
William Kimber was purchased by Thorsons in 1988 and therefore ceased publishing under that name.Thorsons was purchased by William Collins in 1989.William Collins became wholly owned by News Corporation in 1990, and was then incorporated into HarperCollins Publishers. The name of William Kimber has not been used for publishing since that,making all previously published titles by them,out-of-print,under that name.
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