Publication details: John Lane, The Bodley Head,1932,
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Signed by the author on the flyleaf, maintaining the pseudonym associated with her historical novels: 'Yours sincerely, George R. Preedy, 1932'.Marjorie Bowen, itself a nom-de-plume for Margaret Gabrielle Vere Campbell) was a prolific author, adopting masculine identities (another was Joseph Shearing) in order to distinguish her work in different genres.This novel, scarce in any form, presents a 'baroque hero', whose 'fine cavalier's career' plays out against a background of 'France (Paris always), Italy, Vienna, Turkey, and yet of no country - a phantasmagoria' (Author's Foreword).
FIRST EDITION, title-page border printed in purple, faint spot to margin of prelims, recurrent at rear, pp. xi, [i], 377, [2, ads], crown 8vo, original purple cloth, lettered in yellow to upper board and backstrip, a touch rubbed at extremities, top edge yellow, a few very faint spots to fore-edge, dustjacket faintly dustsoiled, tiny nicks and chips at extremities, very good
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