First edition, first printing. 250pp. Coral pink cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on the spine. 8vo. Cloth gently rounded at corners and spine ends, perhaps a tad faded. Text block edges dulled. Hint of spotting on endpapers else internally neat, clean and tight. In its original dust wrapper, bumped at edges, small nick on lower leading corner, a little shelf worn.
English author Williamson wrote this story in the early 1920s, while living in Florida, crafting much of its in the heat of a blistering sun beside the swamps and marshes. But he failed to find a publisher in the States, with rejections saying it was 'too far back in the time', there being no longer an interest in the post-war years, and 'too English' for an American audience. It was not published until 1945 by Faber & Faber.
