Publication details: Cassell,1932,
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George R. Preedy was the pseudonym employed on work of historical fiction by Marjorie Bowen, itself a nom-de-plume for Margaret Gabrielle Vere Campbell) - a prolific author. The present work, a novel set in 17th-century Toulouse, a centre for witch-panic, is scarce - it offers the author's own solution to 'a strange case of passion and murder that baffled France' (blurb).
FIRST EDITION, single spot to fore-margin of prelims, pp. [viii], 328, crown 8vo, original purple cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and a little pushed at ends, a few tiny spots to top edge, faintest of partial browning to free endpapers, superb Eric Fraser dustjacket, correctly priced 7/6 to backstrip panel (first issue), a couple of small marks to backstrip panel, slightly nicked and chipped at extremities, very good
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