first edition Hardcover
1952 · London
by CHAPMAN, Esther
London: Chantry Publications, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New edition. First published by Constable in 1928. Endpapers with offsetting and foxing, corners bumped, very good in a very good lightly soiled dustwrapper with spine faded, short tears on spine ends. A romance novel about a Jamaican girl, the daughter of an Englishman and a native woman and her emigration to the Bohemian life in London. No biographical information about the author who was probably English, the book received good reviews in the London Times Literary Review and The New Statesman. (Inventory #: 413831)