A very good copy in slightly rubbed jacket with a few minor closed tears.
Jacket artwork by Frank Hughes.
£200
London, The Hogarth Press, 1965.
First edition. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 25s.
Inscribed from the author, ‘For Kathleen – (two eggs when they are dear) with affection – “Pat” alias A.L. Barker’.
Out of stock
A very good copy in slightly rubbed jacket with a few minor closed tears.
Jacket artwork by Frank Hughes.
Modern Literature
London, Mills & Boon, 1925
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket correctly priced at 7/6 on spine.
Short stories some of them set in Ireland. Thirteen tales six featuring her recurring character Sandy Acland.
Dorothea Conyers was a prolific Irish novelist. Her books are romantic novels set among the Irish sporting gentry. Her output numbered some 40 titles.
A very difficult title to obtain in a wrapper
Modern Literature
First edition.
London, Peter Davies, 1930.
The author’s first novel, the bizarre, satirical humour of which shocked many. Listed in Bleiler.
Modern Literature
London, Macmillan and Co, 1940.First film tie-in edition.
Modern Literature
London, Williams & Norgate Ltd, 1936.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced at 7/6.
An autobiographical insight into the public school traditions and ambitions from the author's youth, including a comparison with the less constricting approaches of similar schools at the time of publication.
Modern Literature
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1931
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket correctly priced at 7/6 on spine.
A 'rollicking yarn' from this very prolific author concerning one Oswald Twining who writes novelettes of the purple passion variety under the name of 'Hugo Blazer' and Geraldine Rhombard, the daughter of a Dean and for whom Oswald has fallen very heavily.
Rare in jacket no copies online at time of listing.