Stockley (Cynthia) Kraal Baby.
£150
A Novel
London, Cassell, 1933.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
An attractive first edition by this author of romantic literature set in South Africa and Rhodesia, a writing career which began in 1903 with Virginia of the Rhodesians.
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Cloth slightly dulled at spine, jacket with small closed tears to head of spine, but overall a very good, bright copy.
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