Hooke (Nina Warner) Darkness I Leave You
£75
London, Robert Hale, 1956.
First edition. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 12/6.
A semi-gothic thriller set largely in Victorian London, by a prolific writer and biographer. The book, like many of Hooke’s, was subsequently made into a film, The Gypsy and the Gentleman (1958).
In stock
Book itself VG; jacket with some wear and loss at corners and head of spine, a few closed tears.
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