We are traveling this week to the Capital Rare Book Fair in Washington DC. We wee be open again on May 8

The Datchley Inheritance

$175

Author: McKenna, Stephen (1888-1956)

Publisher: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited

Edition: First Edition, First Printing

Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good

Original green cloth printed in black; Pictorial dust jacket has sun-fading on the spine and moderate shelf-handling; a private library label on front pastedown, and a small bookseller label at rear; in a protective Mylar sleeve. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Modest shelf handling wear. 8vo; 308, [12] pp. ads; 7.5 inches tall. First Edition, First Printing.. Written on the cusp of the Great Depression, a novel with the ‘moral that money is not everything and that the modern maiden is well aware of it’. Stephen McKenna was an English novelist of 41 novels focusing on the English upper crust. Ref. Hubin, CCE, 4839