Snow (Charles H.) The Highgraders
£125
London, John Long, [1934].
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Charles Horace Snow (1877-1967) is among the most prolific novelists on record, with some 465 books published under his own name and up to a dozen pseudonyms including Charles Ballew, Gary Marshall, Ranger Lee and H. C. Averill. He spent his early years wandering the western United States and Mexico, supporting himself by mining and prospecting, until he was blinded when an engine he was repairing exploded in his face; after three years he was persuaded by his brother to turn his experience of the West into fiction, studied the rudiments of the craft with the help of his wife and daughter, and sold his first story in 1922.
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Small ex-libris stamp to front free endpaper; damp mottling to cloth at fore edge of lower board; jacket with edge wear, some minor loss.
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