YORK, Camilla. Lavinia and the Devil. London: Selwyn and Blount. 1926. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s grey cloth lettered in black to the spine and ruled in black to the boards, in the striking dust jacket signed indistinctly, perhaps ‘ED’. A good copy. The cloth remains clean and bright, though is pushed and creased at backstrip, with a few faint marks. The binding tight and gently rolled, a little cocked, the textblock edges evenly spotted, with some occasional scattered foxing throughout, usually light. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to the spine, several tiny chips across extremities, some light creasing and the spine lettering a trifle faded, though scarce in the jacket.
An uncommon love story which has at its centre the demure, exquisite, alluring Lavinia, Irish-born residing in an Austrian castle and making waves in London’s cosmopolitan scene. Yet a rival endangers her marital prospect—the Russian ‘devil’, saucy, spicy, intriguing—a veritable man-eating countess. Its sprinkling of American characters within the London high-life supported an American edition to appear which ran into multiple printings. Ex-George Locke stock with his Ferret Fantasy pencil notes to front endpaper. Scarce.
YORK, Camilla. Lavinia and the Devil. London: Selwyn and Blount. 1926. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s grey cloth lettered in black to the spine and ruled in black to the boards, in the striking dust jacket signed indistinctly, perhaps ‘ED’. A good copy. The cloth remains clean and bright, though is pushed and creased at backstrip, with a few faint marks. The binding tight and gently rolled, a little cocked, the textblock edges evenly spotted, with some occasional scattered foxing throughout, usually light. The dust jacket priced 7/6 net to the spine, several tiny chips across extremities, some light creasing and the spine lettering a trifle faded, though scarce in the jacket.
An uncommon love story which has at its centre the demure, exquisite, alluring Lavinia, Irish-born residing in an Austrian castle and making waves in London’s cosmopolitan scene. Yet a rival endangers her marital prospect—the Russian ‘devil’, saucy, spicy, intriguing—a veritable man-eating countess. Its sprinkling of American characters within the London high-life supported an American edition to appear which ran into multiple printings. Ex-George Locke stock with his Ferret Fantasy pencil notes to front endpaper. Scarce.
