Naomi Royde Smith - The Altar-Piece, The Macmillan Company, 1939, 1st US Edition

Naomi Royde Smith - The Altar-Piece, The Macmillan Company, 1939, 1st US Edition

An aged book with discoloured boards.  The dust-jacket is old with bumps and tears.  The way the dust-jacket was made, the sticky tape on it has stained the boards and page 302 has got bit of tape on it.  But not spoiled the book still great to read.  Black hardbacked book with gold lettering.  Illustrated dust-jacket.  Small pencil notation on back board.  Embossed endpapers.

The atmosphere is discreetly Edwardian and subtly sinister.  Miss Royde Smith has found here a chance to indulge her taste for the unusual, both in suspense and in her characters.

Weight  541.  Pages 316.  A First US Edition.