The Last and the First

*** BOOK in fine unmarked condition. Maroon cloth boards with title in gilt on the spine and C-B blind stamped on upper board. 147 pages, fore edge untrimmed. This novel was complete but unedited at the time of the author's death in 1969, and the minimum of editing took place before publication. *** DUST JACKET in good condition, Chip on front (see image) otherwise some shelfwear, not price clipped and now Trimsleeve protected. *** CONTENTS: This was the nineteenth, and last, of the author's stories about the horrors of life in Victorian country houses. ***CONTENTS: The author's familiar themes of power, tyranny and moral corruption are played out in an outwardly genteel Edwardian setting. Scarse US first edition. Size: 210x145mm.