Man of Steel

First edition, first printing.  192pp.  Brown cloth-covered boards, black titles on spine.  12mo.  Cloth a little pushed on corners and spine ends.  Some spotting on text block edges and endpapers, and faintly on first and last few leaves, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original dust wrapper, slightly faded, rubbed and a little nicked on edges, slightly sunned over spine, shelf worn.  Dust jacket now protected in an archival quality Mylar wrapper fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. Esther Wyndham was the pen name of Edith Lutyens, an English writer best known for her biographical works on the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti and John Ruskin.  She wrote several romantic novels under her pen name, for Mills and Book and for Harlequin: this is perhaps now the hardest to find.