first edition Hardcover
(c.1953) · New York
by Ronald, James
New York: Julian Messner, Inc.. Very Good in Good dj. (c.1953). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [moderately shelfworn but sound copy, internally clean; jacket is edgeworn and sun-browned, with small tears and minor paper loss at all corners and at top of spine]. A sequel to the author's earlier novel, "Man Born of Woman," this follows the fortunes of Quentin Gourlay, who relocates from the Glasgow of his youth to a sordid and impoverished section of Prohibition-era Chicago in an attempt to shake off his unhappy past as the son of an unsuccessful artist and a mother who never wanted him. The death of his father brings him to England and into a fight with a hated aunt for control of his father's artwork, which has posthumously become quite valuable. . (Inventory #: 26771)