Evans Constance May (4 results)

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards with fading marks. Hinges are cracked. Content is clean with spotting and a prize sticker on the ffep. Poor DJ has chips/tears, marks and is price clipped.

Red hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Page ends browning. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 224pp.

Brown hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in Good condition without dust jacket. Pages edges browning. Light foxing. Lean to spine. Previous owner inscription on fep. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 218pp. Signed and dedicated by author on fep.

Condition: Very good. Jacket artwork by Sheild. (illustrator). First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth blocked in black. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6. From a publishing POV at the minimum, Evans is an interesting author, one of a select few that canny publishers Mills & Boon convinced to adopt at least one pen-name to increase their "representability" via libraries such as Boots and W.H. Smith, who would normally only represent no more than two books by any author a year. Evans wrote over 120 novels for Mills & Boon, at a fairly high standard, under her own name and her "nom de guerres". A little minor spotting, overall book Near Fine; jacket a little rubbed and chipped, but overall VG. From a publishing POV at least, Evans is an interesting author, one of a select few that canny publishers Mills & Boon convinced to adopt at least one pen-name to increase their "representability" via libraries such as Boots and W.H. Smith, who would normally only not represent more than two books by any author a year. Evans wrote over 120 novels for Mills & Boon, at a fairly high standard, under her own name and her "nom de guerres". Book.