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Paye (Robert, pseud. Marjorie Bowen) Julia Roseingrave
£350
London, Ernest Benn, 1933.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth.
‘An excellent witchcraft novel, arguably Bowen’s best work in the genre’ (Shadows in the Attic, p.97). Uncommon.
In stock
Ink stamps to front endpapers, some toning; cloth rubbed, sunned at spine.
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