CHANEY, Jill

Half a Candle

New York: Crown Publishers, (1969). 8vo. Aqua cloth, stamped in gilt. 186 p. 1st American edition. Fine in fine d.w. [88928]

Fifteen year old Ralph, son of a Malayan mother & an English father, is sent back to England when he was orphaned. Unhappy with his uncle's conventional London household, he runs away to live with his father's brother, an "eccentric recluse" living in a shack in the marshes of Suffolk where he finds the life he wanted.

Price: $30.00