The Strange Attraction

Boards and spine rubbed and worn. Fraying to cloth at head and tail of spine. 1/4" chips to cloth at corners of boards. Hinges broken and loose. Text block nearly detached from covers. Front free endpaper and half-title page detached. Previous owner's signature. Previous owner has written "The Strange Attraction" in untidy ink letters on the title page. Ink scribbles on last text leaf and rear pastedown endpaper. Lacking the rear free endpaper. In need of rebinding.; First edition, preceding the UK edition of 1923. [viii], 376 pages. Blue cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 186 x 127mm. New Zealand author's third novel, after "The Story of a New Zealand River" and "The Passionate Puritan". "They stood on what was known as the Dargaville main wharf beside the steamer that had just brought Valerie from Helensville. Passengers still moved cautiously down the unrailed gangway with packages and bags in their hands, and relatives still greeted each other with forced gaiety or honest affection, and acquaintance with laconic nods." - page 1. "This is the second of the two novels Jane Mander wrote with one eye on the films [. . .] The chapters that read best as fiction are the very ones that ask to be filmed [. . .] In spite of its imperfections, the book contains much that is enjoyable, illuminating and just. It is a sharply truthgul picture of an emerging northern town." - from "Jane Mander" by Dorothea Turner (1969, page 69). [Bibliographical Reference: Bagnall M731 for 1923 UK edition - "Set in Dargaville, a story of politics and journalism."]; 8vo

Product Info

Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company

Year: 1922

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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Country: New Zealand