1904 FIRST EDITION HARDBACK VINTAGE ORIGINAL AS PICTURED.A GOOD READING COPY, USUAL WEAR AND TEAR AS TO BE EXPECTED WITH A 120 YEAR OLD BOOK, NOTEABLE FOXING.INTERNAL BINDING IS STRESSED AND A BIT LOOSE.APPEARS TWO PAGES MAY HAVE BEEN CUT OUT ,POST THE END OF THE STORY,I CAN ONLY GUESS THESE WERE ADVERTISING PAGES OR THIS IS A PRINTING MANUFACTURE ERROR THAT WAS CORRECTED.

Hardcover 1st Edition. First Edition hardback. Published by Heinemann 1904. With coloured tissue-guarded frontispiece. 321 pages, Page-edges rough-cut. Boards decorated with green and black, with gold lettering - see pictures. Scarce book. DIFFICULT BOOK TO LOCATE From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Norma Lorimer around 1899 Norma Octavia Lorimer (1864–1948) was a Scots novelist and travel writer, who has been called "One of the most notable early female novelists of the Isle of Man."[1]Biography[edit] Lorimer was born in Auchterarder, Perthshire,[2] the eighth and youngest daughter in a family of eleven.[3] She was raised on the Isle of Man,[2] to which "she returned to in her fiction, showing clearly that she had 'lost her heart' to the South of the Island."[1] In the 1890s she became secretary to Douglas Sladen, with whom she wrote book two of Queer Things about Sicily (Sicily from a Woman's Point of View).[2] She contributed to the Girl's Own Paper and wrote numerous travel books and 26 "rather sentimental novels."[2] "Perhaps her best book was On Etna," her novel A Wife out of Egypt became a best-seller.[3] "The grand sweep of emotions in her Manx novels offers a fresh colouring to the history and scenery of the South of the Island whilst demonstrating the variance and colour to Manx novels."[1] Lorimer died on 14 February 1948, in Perth, Scotland.[3] You are buying the item in the pictures. Please look at all the pictures ,where you will find full details of the item. I am a private seller, a human being, selling off my excess items.I often have to buy a lot of items to get just a very few I really want, so to recoup and minimise my losses I sell the others here. I list an arrival time of about a week, generally I can get the item sent out quicker, but I have a life beyond eBay so that is not always possible.I buy on eBay as well and I am familiar with both sides of the transaction. If there is a problem with your purchase please contact me in the first instance, as I may be able to resolve it satisfactorily. Thank you