Publication details: Constable,1936,
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A scarce book. Following 'We Have Been Warned' - which drew controversy for exploring, in a contemporary setting, themes of sex and womanhood that had passed more or less unnoticed in her historical fiction - this volume of stories (and one play), perhaps pointedly, inserts a partial remove by occupying 'the Debateable Land, the uncharted marches between here and Fairy Land' (blurb), wherein the modern world and various myths and legends can interact, often in the service of the author's socialist beliefs (e.g., a Witch arrives in a Roll's Royce to Corporation Street in Birmingham, and 'lures the children of the unemployed workmen to the dangerous house of Capital').
1936, pp. [viii], 289, crown 8vo, original dark blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge blue, other edges and endpapers with a few faint spots, dustjacket repeating Gertrude Hermes title-page design, backstrip panel slightly browned and a little spotting to front panel, tiny scrape at foot of rear panel, faint shadow from a small star-shaped sticker to backstrip panel, dot of paper residue adhering to front flap (not obscuring text), very good
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