ASHTON, Helen:. Belinda Grove.. London, Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1932 1st edition, 1932.

Price: US$247.67 + shipping

Description: Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Black cloth with yellow/olive lettering to spine. In very good condition. Some minor handling marks to cloth; corners bumped and slightly nicked, small nicks to cloth on spine corners. Lettering on spine faded. Lean to spine. Neat inscription to front endpaper ?Egerton Collier.? else endpapers clean. Inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. Else a very good clean and tight copy. Scarce. 288pp. Rare, a very scarce Ghost Story of a haunted House called ?Belinda Grove,? a fictional Regency house in the North London suburbs whose inhabitants are influenced by a kindly ghost.

Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom

ASHTON, Helen.. Belinda Grove.. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1932, 1932.

Price: US$1924.90 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression, of this uncommon haunted house mystery, in the scarce jacket. The work tells the story of Belinda Grove, a fictional Regency house in the suburbs North of London whose inhabitants are influenced by a ghost. Ashton (1891-1958) was a prolific author with an interest in architecture, history and antiquities. This is the publisher's retained copy with their stamp to the title page. The work was first published in the US the preceding year. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in green. With dust jacket. Minor foxing to edges and endpapers; an excellent copy in the jacket that has a sunned spine and some nicks to extremities.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom