WALKER, Ethel M. God Loves the Franks (signed)
WALKER, Ethel M. God Loves the Franks. London: Crosby Lockwood. 1927. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s attractive cream cloth pictorial boards in the dust jacket matching the design. This copy with a brief note tipped in to front, ‘To Mrs. Noel Jones, in appreciation of a pleasant summer’ and dated November 1933. A very good book, the cloth clean, bright and striking, the spine tips gently bumped. The contents with some toning to endpapers, top edge darkened, some patchy and occasional spots throughout. The dust jacket not priced, several chips to the corners and most significantly to the spine head and tail, some creases, shallow chips and rubbing along all edges.
“A remarkable story of French life […] French in character and patriotism, impressive in its spiritual and human fervency” according to ‘Franziska’ of the Australian Woman’s Mirror. The book certainly appears well-written, but it’s a bit of a mystery all in—the author, whose first name Ethel can be gleaned from the tipped-in dedication to a Mrs Noel Jones, is not, we presume, Ethel Walker, the Scottish painter and portraitist who, among many other famous faces, painted Vanessa Bell, promised to paint Virginia Woolf—did she?—and others in the Bloomsbury Group, though the alluring jacket certainly speaks of Bell and Duncan Grant and Roger Fry, in particular those external scenes on the flanks of the front panel. Indeed, the jacket is signed but we cannot make it out. The title comes from a traditional French war cry. Scarce, more so in the jacket and naturally even more so with the inscription. OCLC locates seven copies worldwide.
WALKER, Ethel M. God Loves the Franks. London: Crosby Lockwood. 1927. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s attractive cream cloth pictorial boards in the dust jacket matching the design. This copy with a brief note tipped in to front, ‘To Mrs. Noel Jones, in appreciation of a pleasant summer’ and dated November 1933. A very good book, the cloth clean, bright and striking, the spine tips gently bumped. The contents with some toning to endpapers, top edge darkened, some patchy and occasional spots throughout. The dust jacket not priced, several chips to the corners and most significantly to the spine head and tail, some creases, shallow chips and rubbing along all edges.
“A remarkable story of French life […] French in character and patriotism, impressive in its spiritual and human fervency” according to ‘Franziska’ of the Australian Woman’s Mirror. The book certainly appears well-written, but it’s a bit of a mystery all in—the author, whose first name Ethel can be gleaned from the tipped-in dedication to a Mrs Noel Jones, is not, we presume, Ethel Walker, the Scottish painter and portraitist who, among many other famous faces, painted Vanessa Bell, promised to paint Virginia Woolf—did she?—and others in the Bloomsbury Group, though the alluring jacket certainly speaks of Bell and Duncan Grant and Roger Fry, in particular those external scenes on the flanks of the front panel. Indeed, the jacket is signed but we cannot make it out. The title comes from a traditional French war cry. Scarce, more so in the jacket and naturally even more so with the inscription. OCLC locates seven copies worldwide.
WALKER, Ethel M. God Loves the Franks. London: Crosby Lockwood. 1927. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s attractive cream cloth pictorial boards in the dust jacket matching the design. This copy with a brief note tipped in to front, ‘To Mrs. Noel Jones, in appreciation of a pleasant summer’ and dated November 1933. A very good book, the cloth clean, bright and striking, the spine tips gently bumped. The contents with some toning to endpapers, top edge darkened, some patchy and occasional spots throughout. The dust jacket not priced, several chips to the corners and most significantly to the spine head and tail, some creases, shallow chips and rubbing along all edges.
“A remarkable story of French life […] French in character and patriotism, impressive in its spiritual and human fervency” according to ‘Franziska’ of the Australian Woman’s Mirror. The book certainly appears well-written, but it’s a bit of a mystery all in—the author, whose first name Ethel can be gleaned from the tipped-in dedication to a Mrs Noel Jones, is not, we presume, Ethel Walker, the Scottish painter and portraitist who, among many other famous faces, painted Vanessa Bell, promised to paint Virginia Woolf—did she?—and others in the Bloomsbury Group, though the alluring jacket certainly speaks of Bell and Duncan Grant and Roger Fry, in particular those external scenes on the flanks of the front panel. Indeed, the jacket is signed but we cannot make it out. The title comes from a traditional French war cry. Scarce, more so in the jacket and naturally even more so with the inscription. OCLC locates seven copies worldwide.