My Daughter Helen

First edition, first impression.  316pp.  Black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on the spine.  8vo.  Cloth is a little tired and marked, gently rounded on corners, rubbed and rounded at spine ends.  The rear joint has cracked, causing the backstrip to flap.  Text block edges a little toned.  Free endpapers tanned with some faint spotting on first and last few leaves else internally neat, clean and tight. A now very hard to find novel from Allan Noble Monkhouse,  Monkhouse 1858-1936), and author and dramatist, was literary editor of the Manchester Guardian from 1902 to his retirement in 1932.  AS a playwright, he was a key member of a group of realist dramatists who became known as the Manchester School.