shearing joseph pseud (4 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. Poor copy in the original gilt-blocked purple cloth. Panel edges somewhat dulled and dust-toned as with age. Corners slightly bumped. Spine hinges worn. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 348 pages; Physical desc. : 348 p. 21 cm. Subject: Fiction in English, 1900 - Texts. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Illustrated by (dj design) Leo Manso (illustrator). Reprint. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy, nice and clean with just a little wear at the extremities, slight scrunching to top edges of several pages in the middle of the book]. A novel of "love, intrigue, horror, and murder," the story of "a brilliant and ruthless woman, [a] governess whose charm and diabolic cleverness brought destruction in their wake." Reprint of the first novel published by this prolific author under her "Joseph Shearing" pseudonym; it originally appeared in England in 1932 under the title "Forget-Me-Not," and was published in America the same year by Harper & Brothers as "Lucile Cléry: A Woman of Intrigue." (Note that the book itself bears no date other than the 1932 copyright notice, which causes most booksellers to mis-identify this printing as the first American edition. Unfortunately, the clues to the 1941 printing are present only on the dust jacket, which is NOT present on this particular copy.).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Leo Manso (illustrator). Reprint. (price-clipped) [light wear to cloth at spine ends, light soiling to top page edges; jacket has a couple of tiny chips at bottom edge, a few minor tears at edges and corners]. A novel of "love, intrigue, horror, and murder," the story of "a brilliant and ruthless woman, [a] governess whose charm and diabolic cleverness brought destruction in their wake." Reprint of the first novel published by this prolific author under her "Joseph Shearing" pseudonym; it originally appeared in England in 1932 under the title "Forget-Me-Not," and was published in America the same year by Harper & Brothers as "Lucile Cléry: A Woman of Intrigue." Paperback editions are common enough, but any hardcover issue is hard to find, especially in decent condition. (This edition bears no date other than the 1932 copyright notice, but the four other titles blurbed on the rear jacket panel were all published in 1941.).

FIRST EDITION, pp. [viii], 371, crown 8vo, original maroon cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, publisher device blind-stamped to lower board, touch rubbed at extremities, the leading edge of both boards with a little mottled fading, a handful of spots to textblock edges, laid in a typed letter from the Editor of The Sunday Referee presenting a prize (presumably this book), dustjacket by Youngman Carter, a little chipped, nicked and creased at extremities, very good. Scarce in the dustjacket. 'Joseph Shearing' was one of the heteronyms employed by Margaret Gabrielle Vere Campbell Long, whose primary nom-de-plume was Marjorie Bowen. The different identities that she wrote under, often male, including George R. Preedy, John Winch, Robert Paye, represented distinct parts of her oeuvre - a common property being an inclination towards the sinister and supernatural. The Shearing novels explore historical criminal cases, here concerning Lavinia Pierrepoint, a young Englishwoman who becomes embroiled and implicated in the dark intrigues of a French family - an attempted suicide, a triple-murder, all driven by a complex web of lust and avarice. It was published later in the US as 'The Spider in the Cup', referring to its epigraph (drawn from 'The Winter's Tale).