DAYSPRING

Published by Robert Holden & Co., London,, 1927

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First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp 287. Original publisher's pale green cloth with small guilt vignette on cover title in guilt and spine on blue spine label. Nickname on endpaper contemporary with the book some minor wear and foxing otherwise VG. Novel of rural middle class life with some vague mystic elements mainly on a yacht called Philo2. "Michael Cape-Meadows" was the literary pseudonym used by Reverend Michael Weldon Champneys (1885 – 1958), a British clergyman. Champneys published both Dayspring and his novel The Death Watch (also published by Robert Holden), which incorporates elements of fantasy, horror, and theology He was the brother of the anonymous British novelist Adelaide Mary (A.M.) Champneys. The siblings later collaborated on the 1937 fiction novel Fool's Melody. Born in Hampstead, London, he was the son of the prominent British architect Basil Champneys He was educated at Cambridge and spent much of his later life serving as a reverend in Chichester, Sussex. Rare. Only 6 copies found at WorldCat (OCLC) the world’s largest library catalogue. …

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Title
DAYSPRING
Author
MICHAEL CAPE-MEADOWS ( Michael Weldon Champneys)
Publisher
Robert Holden & Co., London,
Publication year
1927
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition

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