Simpson spencer molly (2 risultati)

Original Cloth. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. The boards have quite extensive staining over them and the spine is darkened. Rubbing to the edges with a little fraying at the corners. Browning to the page edges. The binding is a little slack with gaps showing at the title page and the beginning of chapter 2. There are stains in a few places near the front of the book but the pages are otherwise generally unmarked. No jacket. First printing.…

Blue cloth lettered in black. Old Vancouver Reading Club/Library stamps on end papers, a clean very good copy in a very good pictorial dust jacket. The jacket has tears along the folds, and is mostly backed with brown paper tape, but is complete and quite attractive. Jacket art is by Hookway Cowles. Molly Spencer Simpson wrote this novel in her teens, and it was published when she was still 19 years of age. She followed it with a second book, The Four Dead Men (Methuen, 1936; Macaulay, 1937), and was at work on a third novel when she was taken ill and died in 1936 at the age of 21. A very scarce book. …