first edition
1930 · London
by Hoult, Norah
London: William Heinemann, 1930. First edition, 8vo, [6], 314; rear endpaper excised; original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; dust jacket worn at extremities, shallow chipping, and folds tender with a small reinforcement on the verso. This copy inscribed by the author "To H. M. Tomlinson, with admiration and gratitude - Norah Hoult, Feb. 1930." Tomlinson also contributes a blurb to the back panel of the jacket. This is her first novel, following a collection of short stories published in 1928. (Inventory #: 52274)