Wheatley (Dennis) To the Devil – a Daughter
£75
London, Hutchinson, 1953.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 12/6.
The post-war return to black magic, twenty years after The Devil Rides Out: on the Riviera, novelist Molly Fountain befriends the strange girl in the neighbouring villa, Christina, promised to Satan at birth by her father in a bargain now falling due, with the silky Canon Copely-Syle preparing the infernal accounts for settlement. Homunculi, ritual, and a race to redeem a soul signed away by proxy; Wheatley at full melodramatic throttle, with map endpapers to keep the reader oriented between sabbats.
In stock
Ink name and date stamp to front free endpaper, bookseller’s discreet label to front pastedown; cloth some bumping; jacket with some wear to edges, bookseller’s small label to foot of spine, but otherwise very good.
Map endpapers, jacket artwork by Frank C. Papé.
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