1st ed, 1st imp (true first). 192pp. Red cloth covered boards (marked and soiled, rubbed at edges, markedly at corners and joints). Ex library, with lending marks on front endpaper only. Old tape repairs on prelim pages, and some pages affected by mild red stain on lower edge). In its original period pictorial dust jacket (rubbed and chipped at edges, small tears at spine tips, corner damage - jacket complete and bright). Mary Burchell was the pen name of Ida Cook, a British campaigner for Jewish refugees. She and her sister rescued 29 Jews from the Nazis in the 1930s, mainly funded by Cook's writing. Between 1936 and 1985, she wrote 112 romance novels as Mary Burchell for Mills & Boon (many of which have since been republished by Harlequin). Many of her titles are now hard to find, especially in hardback, with original dust jackets.
