Jane Rees Helen Oliver (6 results)

Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Ex-lib. 190mm x 140mm (7" x 6"). 288pp. Illustrated hardback laminated board cover.

Condition: Good. 1961. No Edition Remarks. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.…

Blue hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G: in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and marked. Previous owner's inscription on fep. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 320pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket, tiny loss to top and bottom of spine, corners slightly rubbed, some slight spotting and yellowing to back jacket, some offsetting to endpapers. Not price clipped (12s 6d), previous owner's name to ffep, small bookseller's label to bottom back pastedown, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age in bright unsunned jacket. 318pp. A novel of King James IV of Scotland, by prolific, and sadly now almost forgotten, Scottish historical novelist Jane Oliver, the pseudonym of Helen Christina Easson Rees (1903-70). She married John Lleweyn Rees, also a writer in 1939, but he sadly died on active duty with the RAF in 1940. Jane was also a qualified pilot, and during World War II she drove an ambulance during the London blitz and was active in the Red Cross.…

First Edition. Historical novel set in Scotland at the time of Bannockburn. Bookplate to half title otherwise VG in Good jacket which is frayed top the spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, pp,320, gilt titled black cloth, pictorial clipped dust-jacket which is a little rubbed, a very good copy. A novel telling the love story of Malcolm, King of Scots and his Queen Margaret. Oliver was a Scottish Borderer.