"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1931. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.314; [6], advertisements. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles, illustrated map endpapers, pictorial jacket priced at 7/6. A lightly used copy with clean page edges, discreet owner name, attractive wrapper has benefited from some discreet and well executed restoration from a highly skilled paper conservator. Now shows as a clean, fine copy. A treacherous historical adventure novel set in the dark days of Tudor England. Item #52493
Blanchard A91. Bleiler; Checklist of Fantastic Literature [301].
Price: £395.00