Miller (Helen Topping) Nightshade
£50
London, Alvin Redman, 1961.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Miller (1884–1960) was an enormously industrious American writer, decades of magazine serials and novels, mostly Southern romances and a genteel line in historical Christmas novellas involving the Lincolns and Jeffersons. This UK edition appeared from Alvin Redman the year after her death. Redman was a small London house whose back-list is quietly sought after by the collecting cognoscenti.
In stock
A little light, marginal toning; boards slightly softened at head of spine; jacket with some wear including chipping with loss to spine ends.
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