DARE, Alan. The Guarded Soul. London: Herbert Jenkins. 1928. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s bright orange cloth lettered in black to the spine and front board, in the striking period dust jacket designed by Vernon L. Soper. A very good copy overall, the cloth, though very bright and sharp, is a touch discoloured in patches. The binding remains tight and square, with some spots to the textblock edges. Prize certificate to front pastedown and offsetting to front endpaper, then clean with a handful of minor spots and marks. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to the spine panel which is a touch faded, several small nicks and chips to corners and tips, light rubbing to joints, but a well-preserved example.
A semi-criminous triangular love story involving two brothers interested in the same woman. Alan Dare was a pseudonym of George Goodchild, the prolific author of crime and mystery fiction. His novels under this pseudonym tended to be mostly romance. Scarce in the dust jacket.
DARE, Alan. The Guarded Soul. London: Herbert Jenkins. 1928. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s bright orange cloth lettered in black to the spine and front board, in the striking period dust jacket designed by Vernon L. Soper. A very good copy overall, the cloth, though very bright and sharp, is a touch discoloured in patches. The binding remains tight and square, with some spots to the textblock edges. Prize certificate to front pastedown and offsetting to front endpaper, then clean with a handful of minor spots and marks. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to the spine panel which is a touch faded, several small nicks and chips to corners and tips, light rubbing to joints, but a well-preserved example.
A semi-criminous triangular love story involving two brothers interested in the same woman. Alan Dare was a pseudonym of George Goodchild, the prolific author of crime and mystery fiction. His novels under this pseudonym tended to be mostly romance. Scarce in the dust jacket.
