The White Crow

First edition, first impression.  314pp.  Green cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine.  8vo.  Cloth mildly pushed at spine ends.  Slightly soiled on fore edge.  Previous owner's name neatly inked on front paste down else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original paper dust wrapper,  rubbed on edges and folds, shelf worn, short closed tear on rear upper edge. Storm Jameson (1891-1986) was an English author and journalist and President of PEN from 1938 to 1944).  Her novels and writing was popular and well-regarded at the time; she was a well-known figure, working at PEN with H.G. Wells, E.M. Forster, Rebecca West and others, but was largely overlooked critics and readers alike since.