The Secret Image

[minimal shelfwear, spine very slighly turned, mild bump to top rear corner, vintage bookseller's label (Newbegin's, San Francisco) on rear pastedown; jacket has tiny tears at several corners, minor wrinkling at top of front panel First novel by this playwright and short-story writer; published in England in 1930. "The action of this story takes place on the sunny, flowery island of Trevean. It begins dramatically with the destruction by fire of the house where Jack Irskine and Charlotte Blair have been living unmarried, scorned by the other islanders. Charlotte alone is rescued -- but the shock has almost destroyed her memory. She slowly recovers and, bit by bit, recalls her former life, [including] her unhappy marriage with an English nobleman, her war-nurse service, her meeting with the young and charming Jack Irskine, [and] their mad decision to flee to the Scilly Isles and to live out their lives together." The book was well-received in England (as witness the rear-panel jacket blurbs by the likes of Hugh Walpole and Thomas Burke), but seems to have made little impression in the U.S.

Product Info

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Year: 1931

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Seller Info

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