Mrs Robert Henrey. Bloomsbury Fair. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1955.

Included in the official canon, glossed ‘(three London families)’.

Reissued by The Quality Club, 1955.

Reviewed Sphere, November 19 1955, p. 44; Bradford Observer, November 25 1955, p. 8; Observer, November 27 1955, p. 11; Tewkesbury Register, and Agricultural Gazette, December 10 1955, p. 3.

Bloomsbury Fair ran to 231 pp. Demy 8vo (c. 74K words) priced 16s. bound in black cloth boards with gilt spine titles. The white end papers represented scenes from the story sketched in black, with handwritten captions on blue line maps of Bloomsbury (front) and Mayfair (back) signed David Ghilchik, who had drawn similar end papers for the farm books in the 1940s. Part of the front end paper was reused for the jacket in black on a light blue background with red titling.