THE GINKGO TREE by Jarrett, Cora - 1935

New York: Farrar & Rinehart. 1935. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Fair dust jacket. Edge wear and soiling. Closed tears to front and rear panels' upper edges. Crown and heel of spine chipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Arthur Barker Ltd,, 1935. First UK edition, first impression, published simultaneously with the US edition, this copy in strikingly attractive condition. Cora Hardy Jarrett (1877-1969) began writing in her 50s, first publishing under the pseudonym of Faraday Keene before writing a series of supernatural mysteries under her own name, which Bleiler includes in his Checklist of Supernatural and Fantasy Literature. Jarrett studied widely, including at the Sorbonne and Oxford, and taught Greek and English for much of her career. Her works "are truly Southern Gothic wherever they may be set" and are "deep probings into abnormal psychology which move across the boundary into supernatural" (Reilly, p. 858). Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in black. With dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked and toned, light rubbing to board edges, top edge faintly dust toned, spots of foxing to fore edge and outer leaves, light offsetting to endpapers, contents clean and bright; a very good copy in the… Read More

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., Publishers, On Murray Hill, [1935]., 1935. First edition. First edition. Fine in dust jacket, with light professional restoration to the spine ends. "Mrs. Jarrett subtly interweaves her strange psychological detail with the absorbing progress of her unusual narrative. She writes definitely of emotions beyond the normal; of elements in life which the reader recognizes with a shudder as being more normal than he, perhaps, cares to admit." An absorbing psychological thriller with its strange detail until the final moments of real horror.