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Williamson, A.[lice] M.
Children of the Zodiac.
Publisher: Chapman and Hall, London;
Date of Publication: 1929
Stock Code: 14636
Octavo, pp., 233, [1]. Publisher’s black cloth, titled in yellow to spine, yellow rule borders to boards. In the publisher’s original graphically striking pictorial dust jacket, zodiac design to upper panel, titled to spine panel. With 50% loss to spine of jacket, minor loss to upper and lower panels. Cloth clean and bright and binding square and strong. A very good copy in good dust-jacket. A supernatural romantic novel by the prolific American-English author and wit Alice Muriel Williamson (1869-1933). Williamson was famous within her lifetime, with her novels being adapted into over twenty films in the 1920s in Britain, the United States, Germany, Spain, and Japan. Despite being a best-seller in her lifetime, she has now fallen into obscurity. Scarce in the original dust-jacket. £200.00