Evelyn Screaming Eagle (2 results)

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original orange cloth with black titles to the spine and upper board, in the Helen McKie illustrated dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, paper slightly cracked in places on the front inner hinge but the binding remains firm, the spine with a slight lean and with a few tiny bumps to the board edges. The contents, with a previous owner's bookplate and small shelf stamp to the front pastedown and his name and date inscribed at the top of the title page are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that has several tiny closed tears at the spine tips and fold cornerswhich is a touch darkened to the spine and has several short closed tears to the spine tips and fold corners. With the publisher's printed price of 7/6 to the spine that has been covered with a 2/6 price label. Scarce in the dustwrapper. A humorous tale told through the diary of Evelyn May, a little girl who the anonymous writer describes as "the seed of a flapper", complete with a child's naive spelling and vocabulary. Evelyn May travels to America with her English mother and American Father, and so ensues much UK vs US bickering and cultural satire with a distinctly 1920s slant. Following an earlier book titled 'Sh - Not Before Evelyn May'. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Evelyn May and the screaming eagle / by the author of "Sh-not-before-Evelyn-May". First edition. London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1929. Hardback, Good, in POOR, unclipped dustjacket, duststained, sunned to edges and spine, soiled, with heavy shelfwear to edges and some loss to the front base. Extensive repairs made with brown paper tape from the inside. Orange cloth, heavily bumped to the top corners with some frying of the cloth, patches of sunning to the front and back. Black frame and lettering to front and spine. Binding strong. Endpapers a little grubby. 315pp. + publisher advertisements. Contents clean and bright. A humorous tale told through the diary of Evelyn May, a little girl who the anonymous writer describes as "the seed of a flapper", complete with a child's naive spelling and vocabulary. Evelyn May travels to America with her English mother and American Father, and so ensues much UK vs US bickering and cultural satire with a distinctly 1920s slant. "There have been few more amusing youthful diaries than that compiled by Evelyn May . . . this new book contains the further thoughts of that precocious child, more particularly in regard to America, which she visits for the first time" (from the cover description). Hard to find, especially in the dustjacket. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.