THE UNICORN

First edition, first printing. Original fawn cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the Christopher Cornford illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge blue. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the corners and spine tips lightly rubbed. There is a faint crease to the first few pages, the contents are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the bright dustwrapper that is a little rubbed and nicked to spine tips and flap folds with a touch of toning to spine and rear panel. 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?" - publisher's blurb. (Tominaga and Scheidermeyer 321).