TROPIC HEAT

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth with black titles to the spine and publisher to the lower corner of the upper board. Without dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, with bumping and rubbing to the spine ends, corners and folds, the cloth a little marked. The contents, with light spotting to the first few pages and all edges of the closed text block, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Thirty two page publisher's catalogue to the rear (dated Spring 1941).

Elinor Mordaunt was the author of twenty-eight novels and eight collections of short stories including 'The Tales of Elinor Mordaunt' (1934) and 'Death it is' (1939).