Gardiner (D.F.) Another Night, Another Day
£225
London, Constable, 1930.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Rural novel set in the village of Thornhill, dominated by the violent farmer-squire George Raker. The land itself is the true tyrant – binding all the characters, including Raker’s wife, Esther Marlowe, James Baxter, and a labourer called Shandy, through possession or toil to its impersonal seasonal rhythms.
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A little light spotting; cloth slightly lightened at spine; jacket with 3/6 price sticker to spine and inside front flap, further hand-written price 2/- to spine, some marking and edge wear, a few small holes to upper hinge.
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