The White Owl.

Bookseller Notes

Smithson's novel is a 'romantic mystery of modern times with a most unusual theme' (blurb) - that being black magic, and Smithson uses a present-day descendant of a fourteenth-century witch to explore whether the 'Satanic work' (her Foreword) of the earlier period continues in a modern setting. 'Do those who traffic with the Powers of Darkness hand on a fearful legacy to their children?' (blurb).The dustjacket is identifiably a later issue, in the sense that it refers to her next two books (both 1939) in the list on the rear panel, but the first printing of the text is rare in any form and this is an excellent copy.