HALEGUA, Lillian. The Hanging. London: Peter Owen. 1970. Thin and small 8vo. First British Commonwealth edition. Publisher’s brown cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Keith Cunningham. A very good copy. The boards clean and bright, the binding tight and square. A few mild spots to the textblock edges, and a handful of spots to the endpapers and within, though usually fine. The dust jacket unclipped, the spine a trifle faded, with noticeable spots to all panels of the jacket. Nevertheless, a sharp copy.
Halegua’s third novel—after The Pearl Bastard and The Priest, both praised—set on a Caribbean island. Adelia Adaire, a former dancing girl, is condemned to death for murdering her third ‘husband’. In prison, she befriends the Chief of Police and an illegitimate relationship between the pair occurs, and through a series of flashbacks, the Chief of Police is torn between his duty and his emotions. Uncommon.
HALEGUA, Lillian. The Hanging. London: Peter Owen. 1970. Thin and small 8vo. First British Commonwealth edition. Publisher’s brown cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Keith Cunningham. A very good copy. The boards clean and bright, the binding tight and square. A few mild spots to the textblock edges, and a handful of spots to the endpapers and within, though usually fine. The dust jacket unclipped, the spine a trifle faded, with noticeable spots to all panels of the jacket. Nevertheless, a sharp copy.
Halegua’s third novel—after The Pearl Bastard and The Priest, both praised—set on a Caribbean island. Adelia Adaire, a former dancing girl, is condemned to death for murdering her third ‘husband’. In prison, she befriends the Chief of Police and an illegitimate relationship between the pair occurs, and through a series of flashbacks, the Chief of Police is torn between his duty and his emotions. Uncommon.
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