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Timperley (Rosemary) Lights on the Hill

£195

London, Robert Hale, 1968.

First edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the author, 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.

A novel set in a hospital for disabled servicemen on a hill, following the matron, a ward sister, the staff nurse Martin and the nursing auxiliary Ruth, who loves him. Rosemary Timperley (1920–1988) was born in Crouch End. She was a novelist, short-story writer and scriptwriter, and edited several of the Barrie & Rockliff Ghost Book anthologies.

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Foxing, heavier to endpapers; slightly softened at head of spine; some foxing to jacket, minor rubbing.

Jacket artwork by Biro.

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