first edition Hardcover
1948 · London
by Bowers, Penelope
London: William Heinemann Ltd.. Good in Fair dj. 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. [moderate shelfwear, soiling to top edge of text block, gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep, small vintage bookseller's rubber stamp (Bertrand Smith "Acres of Books," Long Beach, California) on front pastedown; jacket heavily worn with various chips, tears, creasing, etc.] Described as "an English story written in India" in the jacket blurb, its theme deals with "reincarnation and fate." The first of just two novels by this British author, who trained as an actress and apparently had a brief stage career in the 1930s prior to going to the Sudan (during the first year of the war) and subsequently to India, where she remained until 1947. . (Inventory #: 20560)