Parsons (Marion) A Daughter of the Dawn
£75
London, Geoffrey Bles, 1924.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original dark orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
An excellent jacket on this “… vivid story, dealing with a curious racial problem.” (jacket) – set in Hawaii.
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VG+/VG, ownership inscription to front end paper, minor foxing to pre-limbs and fore-edge, in a VG wrapper, correctly priced at 7/6 on the spine, verso of wrapper reinforced with paper at the spine ends.
Jacket artwork by Philip Simmonds.
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