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New York: Alfred H. King, 1930. First US edition. Very good plus.. Rare first printing of the US edition, revised from the English edition and the author's preferred version of perhaps the greatest children's gothic. TENTHRAGON ranks with the best of Joan Aiken and John Bellairs. Such was its ambition that it perplexed as many contemporaries as it attracted; THE OBSERVER called it an "odd, unusual novel," while Punch questioned whether it could properly be called a novel at all. Savery's later works for children, less strange and consequently more successful, burst with adventure, good spirits, and explicitly Christian virtues; her most notable work for adults, a book-length continuation of Charlotte Brontë's unfinished fragment EMMA, is ambitious, but an ambitious pastiche. TENTHRAGON stands alone in a strange place: the greatest children's gothic, but not quite a children's book, only a book about a child. Among Savery's unpublished manuscripts is the curious CHARLES OF DOLOROUS GARD, described… Read More