Consul's Daughter Tapa dura - 1986

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour pictorial dw/dj; with minimal shelf-wear to edges and lightly bumped to head of spine/backstrip.Fore-edges slightly aged as usual/ normal,contents bright,tight and clean.Green paper-covered boards with gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white endpapers,the front free endpaper having a small diagonal clip to the top corner.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,272pp. Caseley Bonython was in her father's shipping yard when the schooner Cygnet came into Falmouth harbour.At her helm was the half-Cornish,half-Spanish,masterful Jago Barata,who was far from pleased to find himself dealing with a 21-year-old girl,especially one so independent and stubborn as Caseley.She had been forced by her father's illness to run his shipping business,and more besides.For her father was Consul for Mexico,and Mexico with its Spanish connections was involved in the Spanish wars to restore the monarchy. How this was to affect both Caseley and… Leer más