Gallows Orchard – Claire Spencer – First Edition 1930

First edition of Gallows Orchard – in or opinion – in the best dust jacket design we have ever seen.

Published by Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith. Octavo, 285 pages, a little age, generally very good condition.

Lucy antagonises a small village in Scotland … she has numerous suitors but in the end the village folk have their way. Murder, marriage and death ….

This was Scottish born Clair Spencer’s first novel. By this time, she was in the US married to publisher Harrison Smith.

Approaching 100 years – First edition challenging story

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