Fox (Leslie H.) The Forgotten Incarnation
£695
[London], , n.d..
Original typescript with author’s manuscript edits and underlining. 4to. Bound in contemporary boards with title label and label from the Apex Literary Agency to upper board.
A seemingly unpublished novel by an author whose other works were published posthumously in the 1940s (the author was killed in action during a raid on Hamburg in 1942). The work is described on a preliminary page as a romance, with period and location given as ‘3409 B.C. – Ancient Egypt / 1942 A.D. – London, England’, and seems to be in the style of H. Rider Haggard, as Fox had originally given the ‘author’ of the work as Allan Quartermain [sic], but has subsequently scored that out and added by hand ‘Leo Rex’, presumably a character of his own invention (possibly a recurring character, as the author’s last advertised work to be published seems to be Rex on the Trail – cf. Bear Alley Books blog).
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Spine worn with some loss.
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