The Dry Wood
Sheed and Ward, 1947.
8vo, beige buckram cloth, brown titles, 257pp. First edition. Unclipped dust jacket (3.00) with faint chips to top edge of both panels, faint loss to spine crown, toning and rubbing to rear panel. Toning to endpapers, slight bump to board corners. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The first and only published novel by English Catholic devotional writer, a story of a parish in London’s East End seeking miraculous intercession after the death of their priest. Rather scarce in dust jacket. A handsome copy in mylar.
. Near Fine / Very Good.
Price: $125.00
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