MR. MISFORTUNATE
by Marjorie Bowen London: W. Collins Sons & Co. LTD., (1923). First edition, SECOND impression (stated). Faint foxing to the page edges, a tan strip to the endpapers, else a near fine, clean copy in blue cloth with with titles and publisher's device stamped in black; in a very good color pictorial dust jacket with a large piece missing from the lower spine and rear panel, mild soiling, a few small edge tears, and minor creasing to the upper spine. Historical novel filled with betrayal and intrigue that paints a powerful portrait of the failed Jacobite movement. "Marjorie Bowen (pseudonym of Mrs Gabrielle Margaret V[ere] Long née
Campbell), was a British author who wrote historical romances,
supernatural horror stories, popular history and biography."--Fantastic Fiction. A very scarce novel. PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT BOOKS THANKS! |