Rock of Diamond.

Quartermain (James, pseud. for James Broom Lynne)

Rock of Diamond.

Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. 192, 8vo, original black boards, spine lettered in silver, pinched at upper edge of joints and dustjacket folds, text block faintly spotted at upper edge, unclipped dustjacket, faintly soiled, rear flap with small pen mark, very good

Publication Details: Constable, 1972

Notes: Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf for fellow writer and bibliophile, John Baxter: 'I've walked and talked with Antonia Fraser, Kingsley Amis, V.S. Pritchett, Leslie Charteris, Stella Gibbons, H.M. the Queen - and John Baxter / James Broom Lynne / James Quartermain'.Broom Lynne, who original trained at St. Martin's, is perhaps better known as a commercial artist and illustrator, providing dustjacket designs for Heinemann, Michael Joseph, MacDonald etc. for the novels of Gladys Mitchell, Dick Francis, among many others, and perhaps most notably Powell's 'A Dance to the Music of Time' serie...moreInscribed by the author on the flyleaf for fellow writer and bibliophile, John Baxter: 'I've walked and talked with Antonia Fraser, Kingsley Amis, V.S. Pritchett, Leslie Charteris, Stella Gibbons, H.M. the Queen - and John Baxter / James Broom Lynne / James Quartermain'.Broom Lynne, who original trained at St. Martin's, is perhaps better known as a commercial artist and illustrator, providing dustjacket designs for Heinemann, Michael Joseph, MacDonald etc. for the novels of Gladys Mitchell, Dick Francis, among many others, and perhaps most notably Powell's 'A Dance to the Music of Time' series. He also wrote plays for the BBC and novels in a number of genres, this,the third of the Diamond books, a tense Mafia Manhattan thriller. HIDE