Vanities and Verities

First edition.  216pp, with black and white plate illustrations.  Red cloth-covered boards with blue relief and gilt lettering on spine.  8vo.  cloth a little pushed at spine ends.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust wrapper, faded, a little toned and bumped at edges, a few mild marks and shelf wear visible on verso. In this very human   and endearing collection of essays, Mottram shares with the reader his personal store of experience.  Well-known and well-loved as a novelist, writer and chronicler of the secluded town of Norwich, Mottram is seen here as an essayist with a range of moods and affections, and his topics range from Norwich to novels, from literary figures to the experience of life.