They Seek A Country..
Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, with gilt block on front boards and borders on spine, in pictorial dust wrapper which has repaired chips and tears. Light foxing of fore edge but otherwise a very good copy.
£60.00
Details
FIRST EDITION IN DUST WRAPPER
Publisher
William Heinemann Ltd.,
Place
London
Date
1937
Synopsis
(the severn edition).
Item Description
FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 5.5 x 8 inches. viii + [1] pp. + [6] pp. publisher's advertisements.
Illustrations
Decorated by publisher's device on title page.
Notes
Francis Brett Young (1884-1954) was born in Halesowen, Worcestershire and practised as a physician until he was invalided home from the campaign in German East Africa in 1918. He then devoted himself to a career as an author, publishing his Mercian novels, loosely based on a version of his ancestral Midlands and also travelling widely, including South Africa. This title, set in the 1830s, relates the story of a Worcestershire boy, who is transported for poaching, but escapes from his wrecked convict ship on the shores of South Africa, where the greater part of the novel is set.
[Stock No. 24543]
Subjects
20th Century • Art / Literature • Dust Wrapper • First Edition • Lit. Fiction • Novels