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Shearing (Joseph, pseud. Marjorie Bowen) Orange Blossom
£650
London, Heinemann, 1938.
First edition. 1½ page autograph letter from the author tipped in at front. 8vo. Original orange-brown cloth lettered in gilt.
A superb association copy: Roughead’s writings inspired the Shearing novel The Fetch (dedicated to him). The book is notable for containing the ghost story ‘They Found my Grave’ not available elsewhere in the reprint collections issued in the author’s lifetime. Edward Wagenknecht was exuberant about this ghost story in his essay on Marjorie Bowen (Seven Masters of the Supernatural), praising its ‘atmosphere of evil’.
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A near fine copy.
Provenance: Scottish collector, criminologist, writer and editor, William Roughead, with his bookplate and one of the letters he received from the author pasted in.
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