Another spring von fraser simson cicely (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION w/Original Contract. Fraser-Simson was the wife of Cyril Fraser-Simson who best remembered as the composer who first set A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh poems to music. She had previously published some crime novels as far back as the late 1920s. This is seemingly more of a romance novel, concerning a young woman named Gale Fenton who escapes to London after a tragedy occurs near her country home. Offered with an original contact for the novel, addressed to Fraser-Simson at her home in London, and a note from her literary agents, A.M. Heath & Company Ltd. The contract is initialled and signed by Robert Hale, as managing director. The contract goes through differing royalty arrangements for various editions of the book ('The British Library Edition' Standard Edition, Book Society Editions, Export Editions, Cheap Editions, Remainders]. Fraser-Simson was paid an advance of £50 for the book. BOOK: Blue cloth boards a little faded to extremities, corners bumped, bookplate to ffep, bite to bottom of title page. DJ: Unclipped jacket with 9/6d to inner flap, a little worn and faded to extremities, some loss to head of spine and a spot of loss to middle of spine with 'F' of Fraser missing.…