The Lady Of The Heather
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1945.
Hardcover. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. Item #14935
Tone, random foxing, light cock, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket light edgewear, 1/4" edge tears with chipping, spine peel, light tone, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; Historical romance by English-born Australian writer Will Lawson, based on the legend of a French aristocratic descendant of Bonnie Prince Charlie marooned in the early 19th-century on subantarctic Campbell Island for her Jacobite beliefs. Lawson's South Seas novel colorfully fictionalizes her austere religious life there, visits by varied sealers and smugglers, and a rescue and travel to Hobart, Tasmania. Hard-to-find in Dust Jacket, with WW2 wartime printing and Australian War Savings Certificates ad on rear dust jacket cover. ; ix, 160 pages.
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