THE UNICORN

First edition, first printing. Original fawn cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the Christopher Cornford illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge coloured blue. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with a previous owner's name and date to the front free endpaper and some spotting to the closed text-block edge, are otherwise clean throughout. The blue top edge is faded. Complete with the lightly rubbed and spine-toned dustwrapper that is without loss or tears. Not price-clipped (21s net to the front flap).

The author's seventh novel. "When Marian Taylor takes the post of governess at Gaze castle, a remote house on a beautiful but desolate coast, she finds herself confronted with many strange mysteries. What kind of crime or catastrophe in the past still keeps the house under a brooding spell? And is her employer Hannah an innocent victim, a guilty woman, a lunatic, or a witch?" (from the publisher; Tominaga and Scheidermeyer 321).