10th printing of 1920 first. Blue cloth boards (worn, lightly marked, rounded at corners). Ex library, with library marks restricted to front endpaper. In a period pictorial dust jacket (slightly bumped at edges, rubbed, edges chapped, fraying at spine tips). Pseudonym of Marguerite Florence Helene Jervis Evans (1894-1964), a prolific & popular writer of the early 20th century, Countess Barcynska was a mystery figure who eschewed the limelight and created true-to-life, multi-dimensional heroines who sacrificed everything.
