The Galaxy.

Ertz (Susan)

The Galaxy.

Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. 370, [6, ads], crown 8vo, original blue cloth, lettered in shades of blut to upper board and backstrip, the latter slightly faded, a few spots to top edge, attractive pictorial dustjacket, a little chipped at extremities, slightly dustosiled (more so at head of rear flap), very good

Publication Details: Hodder & Stoughton, [1929]

Notes: Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'To Richard Jennings, from Susan Ertz'.The novel relates the life of Laura Deverell, from her birth in 1862 in Mecklenburg Square through to her death in the present day as she is struck by a car - the opening 8 lines repeat at the close to indicate that the foregoing narrative is what passes before her eyes at the fatal moment.