Another Man’s Wife

London: Robert Hayes, No date.
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19cm x 12.5cm. 379 pages. Red cloth, gilt and blind lettering and decoration, illustrated jacket.

“Fate’s cruellest irony that on the day–when to save an impoverished father–Beryl marries the elderly Lord Medford, title and riches come to the man she loves. But Fate sometimes relents.” (from jacket) Classic Victorian romance published under the prolific pseudonym of Bertha M. Clay, first used by Charlotte M. Brame (1836-1884) before being penned by a number of hands, here quite possibly the hand of John Russell Coryell, first appearing as a serial in the New York Weekly in 1887 before hitting the stands as a dime novel published by Street & Smith, to which Coryell had family connection. Here published under the Robert Hayes imprint in the early 1920s half-crown Sandringham Library series, this copy with the original illustrated jacket, signed Ryder.

Jacket somewhat grubby, tape repairs to the edges with some small loss. Minor tanning. Very Good Condition.

AU$100