Buy this book on-line Heard, Gerald : The Black Fox: A Novel of the SeventiesHarper & Brothers, New York, 1951
275pp. Black cloth spine and green boards. Boards show some fading on the edges. Front free endpaper lightly creased. DJ is price clipped and lightly edgeworn. DJ spine tips slightly chipped . A rather scarce novel of the supernatural. The setting is an English cathedral close of the 1870s. Here Throcton is a Canon--an ambitious scholar and orientalist who despises one of his colleagues and fears another. When Canon Simpkins wins preferment over him his resentment is so great that he looks up an ancient Arabic formula for destroying one's enemy. What follows his brief ritualistic act gives this story its name and dark pattern. How a superior force, available to the pure in heart, counteracts the murderous black magic released in the cathedral community marks the denouemont of the story, 8vo, Very Good in Very Good DJ Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Heard, Gerald : The Black Fox: A Novel of the Seventies. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out of print books, rare books, livres rares, fine bindings and first editions. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |