JAMESON, Storm

Here Comes a Candle

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939. First American Edition. Octavo (20.5cm); pale blue cloth with red label on spine, in pictorial dustwrapper; 7-281pp. Surface wear and soiling (especially along spine); spine heel and crown bumped; dustwrapper extremities chipped, with short tears and creasing to lower rear portion. Textblock preliminaries and edges foxed, else clean and sound. Very Good in Good dustwrapper.

English author Storm Jameson had a prolific and varied career, which included essays, critical reviews, short stories, and novels in many genres. Of the latter, Here Comes a Candle (1938) is a suspenseful character study—literally a fire waiting to ignite—built around the motley, often disreputable crew occupying a London rooming house above a nightclub and café bar.

Price: $35.00

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