SPENCER, Claire. Gallows' Orchard. London: Jonathan Cape. 1930. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Mabel Dickinson Lapthorn. A very good copy overall, the cloth clean and bright, just a trifle bumped at extremities. The binding tight and square, with some light spots to the textblock edges, light offsetting to endpapers, else fine. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net), with a couple of small chips and nicks to extremities, gently rubbed along joints, but a smart volume overall.
A nice example of this Hubin-listed story of Effie Gallows, whose ‘crystal fearlessness’ causes love, pain and murder in her rural Scottish village. Published probably a few months after the US edition, and in a much smaller edition. Of particular significance is the unmistakable jacket design by Lapthorn, who produced only a small handful in the medium, each as striking as the other. Indeed, though the US edition jacket is considered a high point of Art Deco design, this cataloguer much prefers Lapthorn’s attempt.
SPENCER, Claire. Gallows' Orchard. London: Jonathan Cape. 1930. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Mabel Dickinson Lapthorn. A very good copy overall, the cloth clean and bright, just a trifle bumped at extremities. The binding tight and square, with some light spots to the textblock edges, light offsetting to endpapers, else fine. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net), with a couple of small chips and nicks to extremities, gently rubbed along joints, but a smart volume overall.
A nice example of this Hubin-listed story of Effie Gallows, whose ‘crystal fearlessness’ causes love, pain and murder in her rural Scottish village. Published probably a few months after the US edition, and in a much smaller edition. Of particular significance is the unmistakable jacket design by Lapthorn, who produced only a small handful in the medium, each as striking as the other. Indeed, though the US edition jacket is considered a high point of Art Deco design, this cataloguer much prefers Lapthorn’s attempt.
