ANDREWS, Andrew. Martin Lethbridge. London: Jonathan Cape. 1933. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s burgundy cloth lettered in white to the spine, in the striking monotone dust jacket which goes uncredited. A very well-preserved copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the textblock edges gently spotted with some light scattered foxing to prelims, the text largely fine. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net), complete, with a couple of tiny nicks to extremities, white rear panel a little marked, but a nice example.
A scarce novel set in Central America, about “the conquest of a swamp by an English engineer and the rout of his every convention by an American girl”, showing the lyrical Sierras and the horrors of human sacrifice in the steaming forests. A bit of a mystery all-in-all; I can find nothing on the unusually-named author—a pseudonym?, nor the intriguing dust jacket design. OCLC locates six copies, none in commerce at the time of writing.
ANDREWS, Andrew. Martin Lethbridge. London: Jonathan Cape. 1933. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s burgundy cloth lettered in white to the spine, in the striking monotone dust jacket which goes uncredited. A very well-preserved copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the textblock edges gently spotted with some light scattered foxing to prelims, the text largely fine. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net), complete, with a couple of tiny nicks to extremities, white rear panel a little marked, but a nice example.
A scarce novel set in Central America, about “the conquest of a swamp by an English engineer and the rout of his every convention by an American girl”, showing the lyrical Sierras and the horrors of human sacrifice in the steaming forests. A bit of a mystery all-in-all; I can find nothing on the unusually-named author—a pseudonym?, nor the intriguing dust jacket design. OCLC locates six copies, none in commerce at the time of writing.
