311 + 4pp publisher’s catalogue. Hardcover binding with dust jacket. Loosely inserted newspaper review of novel from ‘The Star’ newspaper, dated 9 October 1934. Dust jacket in good condition, with rubbing, edgewear, sunning to spine, small open and closed tears to jacket. Jacket has been covered with protective Brodart plastic sleeve after photos were taken. Book: Very good. Slight sunning to top and tail of spine, light yellowing to endpapers and pastedowns. Text is clean. Well bound.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_de_Melker: Daisy Louisa C. de Melker (1 June 1886 – 30 December 1932), simply known as Daisy de Melker, was a South African nurse who was accused of poisoning two husbands with strychnine for their life insurance money; all she was found guilty of, however, was poisoning her only son with arsenic for reasons which are still unclear. De Melker is the second woman to have been hanged in South African criminal history.
Size: 8vo (19,2 x 13cm)
London: Chatto & Windus, 1934
- Jacket Condition: Good
- Binding Condition: Very Good
- Size: 8vo
