THE DARKLING PLAIN

First edition. Publisher's original green cloth with dark blue titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with mild spotting to the closed fore-edge are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lighty rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is a touch toned to the spine. Not price-clipped (7/6 net to the front flap).

The first and seemingly only novel by the great nephew of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (and great grandson of painter Ford Madox Brown), contemporary reviews of which appear largely positive. "Three young men all different in temperament, all leading different lives in business and pleasure, and yet all bound together by coincidence and a new writer's skilled penmanship..."