FERGUSON, Margaret. Forbidden Fires
FERGUSON, Margaret. Forbidden Fires. London: John Long. n.d. [1930]. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in black to spine, in the striking period dust jacket designed by Gladys Rees. A fabulous, fresh copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents fine, slight offsetting to endpapers. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to the spine, a trifle rubbed to spine head and tail, but a very bright and pleasing copy.
‘A dramatic story of love and misunderstanding set against the romantic background of the East, where life and emotions glow with rich colours’. Set in London and Baghdad. Seemingly the author’s first novel; a handful of later novels appeared, usually on similar themes expressed here. I can find little on the author herself; a little sleuthing suggests she was born in India, the daughter of a banker, and came to England as a teenager. She spent much of her life in Sussex. The jacket designer, Gladys Rees, was born in London and studied at Chelsea School of Art. She designed only a small amount of jackets, usually for children’s books, and more famously designed posters for the London Underground. Scarce. OCLC locates two copies.
FERGUSON, Margaret. Forbidden Fires. London: John Long. n.d. [1930]. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in black to spine, in the striking period dust jacket designed by Gladys Rees. A fabulous, fresh copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents fine, slight offsetting to endpapers. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to the spine, a trifle rubbed to spine head and tail, but a very bright and pleasing copy.
‘A dramatic story of love and misunderstanding set against the romantic background of the East, where life and emotions glow with rich colours’. Set in London and Baghdad. Seemingly the author’s first novel; a handful of later novels appeared, usually on similar themes expressed here. I can find little on the author herself; a little sleuthing suggests she was born in India, the daughter of a banker, and came to England as a teenager. She spent much of her life in Sussex. The jacket designer, Gladys Rees, was born in London and studied at Chelsea School of Art. She designed only a small amount of jackets, usually for children’s books, and more famously designed posters for the London Underground. Scarce. OCLC locates two copies.
FERGUSON, Margaret. Forbidden Fires. London: John Long. n.d. [1930]. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in black to spine, in the striking period dust jacket designed by Gladys Rees. A fabulous, fresh copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents fine, slight offsetting to endpapers. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to the spine, a trifle rubbed to spine head and tail, but a very bright and pleasing copy.
‘A dramatic story of love and misunderstanding set against the romantic background of the East, where life and emotions glow with rich colours’. Set in London and Baghdad. Seemingly the author’s first novel; a handful of later novels appeared, usually on similar themes expressed here. I can find little on the author herself; a little sleuthing suggests she was born in India, the daughter of a banker, and came to England as a teenager. She spent much of her life in Sussex. The jacket designer, Gladys Rees, was born in London and studied at Chelsea School of Art. She designed only a small amount of jackets, usually for children’s books, and more famously designed posters for the London Underground. Scarce. OCLC locates two copies.