This String First

1st ed, 1st imp. Second state dust jacket. xii, 304pp plus publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. Maps to endpaper. Orange cloth-covered boards (faded and worn at edges, rounded and softening at corners, faded spine cloth). Lending sheet on front free endpaper, else no other library markings. Internally neat and clean barring tear in front paste down endpaper). In its original, vintage dust jacket (rubbed at edges with a little mild chapping, worn, rubbed on joints and folds, creased and scuffed spine, mild shelf wear, interior reinforcements). Second state dust jacket, art work by Tansley. Dust jacket now in archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong the life of the jacket. It is not adhered to the book or to the jacket. Third novel, following 'God and the Rabbit' and 'In This Valley', by this talented author whose real name was Charlie Christmas Bush (1888-1973). Bush also wrote crime novels as Christopher Bush.