UNDER CAPRICORN

by Helen Simpson

$500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. First US edition of Simpson's historical gothic, her second novel adapted for the screen by Alfred Hitchcock. Near fine in very good plus jacket. Item #47556 Simpson was a member of the Detection Club along with Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, Baroness Orczy, and a host of lesser lights, as well as the founder of the Oxford Women's Dramatic Society; a notable early work, ENTER SIR

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