The Man With His Back to the East

Ross, Helen Halyburton

Verlag: London Thornton Butterworth 1926, 1926

Beschreibung

First edition. 318 pages + 1 of ads. The book is firmly bound in patchily faded and slightly marked salmon pink cloth, lettered and decorated in blue and blind, the extremities are slightly bumped and rubbed. The text block is age toned, slightly foxed and dusty, with minor marks and a neatly written ink inscription to the front pastedown. The Abbey illustrated dust jacket is the original and correctly priced at 7/6 to the spine, it is grubby, rubbed, torn and creased, with loss to the top of the spine affecting the top two lines of the title and other more minor chips to the edges. An exotic romance novel set in Egypt in the years after WW1, with elements of mystery and mistaken identity. It's probably not giving away too much to say that there's a happy ending and to quote the final sentence: "And only the camels, those strange beasts to whom Allah entrusted the hundredth secret denied to man, were witness of the desert betrothal.". It was Ross's debut novel, the first of 11, all set in similar middle eastern locations, and the wealth of detail in the descriptive passages show her familiarity with the area. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6414

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Man With His Back to the East

Verlag: London Thornton Butterworth 1926

Erscheinungsdatum: 1926

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

Auflage: 1. Auflage