Drums of Youth - A Romance of the Riviera (Author's Copy)
Hurst & Blackett, 1930. Undated, second impression. Margery Lawrence was an English romance, fantasy, horror and detective fiction author, specializing in ghost stories. She is best known for her supernatural works, including; "Number Seven, Queer Street", "Nights of the Round Table", "The Floating Café" and more. Later in life she converted to spiritualism. Original copies of many of her books are hard to find, some of the more popular novels have seen reprints by the likes of Ash-Tree Press. This being the author's personal copy, uniformly bound and inscribed as was her practice. Bound in dark blue cloth, blue topstain, with, leather label on the spine. Inscribed on ffep; "Margery Lawrence Published 1929 fourth book. (Novel)". An accomplished romance describing the intrigues of a woman of fortune in her late thirties, already disappointed in love by an earlier marriage to a gambling, philandering older man, in pursuit of her slightly older cousin, a vain and insecure man in his early 40s, who is in denial about the transition from youth and vitality to a more sedate period of life, and requires the uncritical adoration of much younger women to support his rapidly crumbling ego. A very good copy, some wear to the boards. Item #31149
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