Lavers Ralph Dj Illustrations (1 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original cream cloth, spine lettered in red. Bumped. Edges toned, else, clean and bright, esp. for the war economy paper. In the original buff typographical dust jacket, printed in orange and navy with illustrations by Ralph Lavers: joints delicate, spine sunned, toned, chipped and nicked, losses to spine ends. Very good/ fair A robust copy of Grant's 1945 historical novel, like her others, apparently drawn from memories of her numerous past lives, and whose story belongs "to a much earlier epoch than is covered by the recorded history of the North American Indians". Joan Grant (1907-1989) was an English historical novelist and reincarnationist: "a hippy avant la lettre" (Armitstead, 2007). Claire Armitstead (2007) 'Mind Over Matter', The Guardian. …