The Cardinal Points

1st edition, 1st printing [1933], true first preceding the USA publication which came a year later. Published in the USA under the title The Valiant Wife. 240pp. In blue cloth-covered boards decorated with blind rules and gilt lettering front and spine. 8vo. Boards are rubbed at edges, with occasional small indentations, and rounded on corners and spine ends. Some fading close to upper edge and around spine. Upper text block edge darkening, faint occasional spotting on other edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Margaret Wilson was an American novelist, awarded the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for The Able McLaughins. By the time this volume was published, she had relocated to England with her husband, a British civil servant. A melodramatic romance constructed around the challenges of prison administration and reform. Wilson was a skilled writer, admired by Graham Greene. Hard to find title (the US edition is slightly easier to find).