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Arthur, Ruth M.
After Candlemas.
Publisher: Victor Gollancz, London;
Date of Publication: 1974
Stock Code: 6286
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp [6], 121. Illustrated by Margery Gill including frontispiece. Original purple cloth with gilt titles to spine and brown endpapers, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth lightly rubbed at spine tips; textblock edge faintly stained otherwise contents clean and crisp. No annotation or inscriptions. Jacket very lightly creased to rear lower edge. A Near Fine copy in like jacket. Children’s adventure story set in Dorset involving witchcraft and a runaway with parallels in local history. Scarce. £65.00