Sheila Kaye-Smith MRS GAILEY 1951 First and similar items

MRS. GAILEY by Sheila Gaye-Smith New York: Harper Brothers, Publishers, (1951). First American edition, first printing; Review copy with publisher's complimentary printed review slip laid in. Publisher's statement "First edition" and first printing code A-A printed to the copyright page. A Doleham, Sussex farm community novel rich in the socially expected British country norms of the 1940s, and with a description of experimental (and failed) co-operative farming. Kaye-Smith, a resident of Sussex, wrote numerous novels rooted in changing English rural concerns, and was highly praised for her descriptions of the countryside, and for her feminist depiction of women characters. Her famous novel JOANNA GODDEN, set in Romney Marsh, was adapted to film by H.E. Bates and starred Googie Withers. Slight wear to upper and lower spine edges, else very good in black linen over linen-textured blue boards, with gilt embossed titles and borders to the spine; in a very good dust jacket with some scattered tiny holes, with small chips to the upper spine edges, nicks and very short tears to the shelf-edges, rubbing to the rear panel, and darkening to the spine panel, as usual; original $3.00 price still intact to the front inner flap. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!