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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. John Ward (illustrator). First Edition/First Printing. Looks unread, no jacket as issued, limited to 350 copies. A brother and sister, both in their forties, live together in the country house left to them by their parents. Their lives are uprooted when she falls in love.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. Price Clipped. First Edition/First Printing. A superb copy, no fading to jacket spine, no spotting to pages or page edges, now in protected jacket. The son of a drunken carrier, miserably poor, illiterate, ugly, and with almost no assets except great physical strength and courage, Bruno Shadbolt is influenced throughout his life by women and money. He teaches himself to read and write, gets his first crude ideas of business and gradually works himself up, paying the bitter penalties of his ignorance and his obsession for wealth, and how finally he comes to own the great house near which he was born - Spella Ho.