By: Cowdroy, Joan A. [Joan Agnes Cowdroy]
Price: £25.00
Publisher:
London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1926
Edition: 2nd Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 04223
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Undated, c1926. Original blue boards, framed and blocked in gilt. Spine quite sunned, first leaf used as pastedown, small nicks on board edges, good. Inscribed by the author on the title page: With cordial wishes, Joan A. Cowdroy Christmas 29. Cowdroy wrote a number of crime novels in the 1930s and 1940s. This early title is something rather different. A review from an Australian newspaper (The Queenslander) reveals that The King of Space is concerned with a young man who loses his memory after a railway accident and who is then treated by a brain specialist, who turns out to be his own (estra...
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