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Son of the House

A[gnes] R[ussell] Weekes

This is another novel by the author of Jenny Essenden (see CON-22.2), Agnes Russell Weekes (1880-1940) who used the pseudonym Anthony Pryde for her novels published in the USA. She wrote several novels with her sister R(ose) K(irkpatrick) Weekes.



 First edition

Bibliography code: CON-26.1

Publisher: Constable & Co. Ltd.

Year: 1926

Format: 8vo

Pages: 318 pp

Binding: Light green cloth with title, By A R Weekes author of Jenny Essenden, Spanish Sunlight in dark green with two vertical lines; on spine, title, same text and publisher

Size: 192 x 127 mm

Dust jacket signed: 'Blam' lower centre, right

Internal illustrations: none

Price: 7s 6d

Printed by: Unknown

Image of dust jacket

Dust jacket (click to enlarge)


Notes: This jacket was identified from a catalogue issued by Constable Books in Autumn 1926 which stated that the wrapper was designed by "Blam". The dust jacket was found in a public collection. The book, without a dust jacket, was seen in the British Library. The design showed how Blampied used watercolours on wet paper, a method he used at the end of the 1920s in a number of abstract paintings that he called Colour poems. You can see one of them here.