Museum Pieces - by William Plomer - First Edition Hardcover Book

Museum Pieces
by William Plomer
published by The Noonday Press

First Edition, Second Printing
Hardcover in good used condition

"This is brilliant comedy, and yet, always, Mr. Plomer's intention remains serious. Toby d'Arfey and his mother, Mrs. Mountfaucon, the "museum pieces" of the title, are products of Edwardian England, who have lived on into an age that "needs them less and less". Toby, twenty in the twenties, thirty in the thirties, a child of the century, moves over much of Europe and South America, tries his hand at many things, but everywhere he is the man of wit and feeling, incapable of adjusting himself to a changing social order...."