Graham (Winston) The Dangerous Pawn
£225
London, Ward, Lock, 1937.
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on title-page. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped, with publisher’s code ‘743’ on spine.
An early work by the creator of the Poldark saga, opening in Raj India and Singapore, before finding its true centre in Cornwall and the Scilly Isles. Uncommon, especially signed. The jacket artist Nina Miller Davidson (1895–1957) was a Scottish watercolourist and stained-glass designer who also produced a number of book jackets.
In stock
Mild toning to extremities of text-block, ink name to front free endpaper; cloth worn; jacket price-clipped, worn and chipped at edges, loss to head of spine.
Jacket artwork by Nina Miller Davidson.
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