Chase, Beatrice

A Dartmoor Galahad

London, Longmans, Green & Co. 1923

First edition.  Very Good in green boards in Good only dust jacket with attractive front cover illustration (some loss and wear at extremities and closed tear halfway down front spine fold, but all printing of titles and illustration intact). 

Signed by the author,  Above her signature, Beatrice Chase has written ^Signed by the author".  Laid in loosely is a plain post card date post-marked 16 July 1941 and embossed with the author's address at Venton Lodge, Widecombe-on-the-Moor. The author has typed to the effect she has 'some unexpected stock in today' and lists some 4 titles to offer with prices. 

On the final line, she types "I wept when I saw them again!"

Scarce novel from a controversial but interesting author who left a wealthy home in London to live on Dartmoor. Although her work is regarded as too sentimental for modern tastes, her observations on life on Dartmoor in the early 20th century are seen as valuable.

Gray, Todd

Devon's Fifty Best Churches

Exeter, The Mint Press, 2011

First edition, paperback.  Fine in laminated cover.  Unsigned

Moseley, Philippa

Sir Tristram and The Great Commotion in The West

Peterborough, Upfront, 2007

Paperback original. Fine in illustrated laminated card cover.

All the significant characters and incidents in this novel are authentic; based on the tragic events of the Great Rebellion of 1549.  The people of the South West, particularly in Cornwall, were left so destitute that they could scarcely eke out a living from day to day.

Philip Caraman

The Western Rising 1549.  The Prayer Book Rebellion

Tiverton, Westcountry Books, 1994.

First edition. Fine in Very Good (price-clipped) dust jacket.

The suppression of the uprising in 1549, the Prayer Book Rebellion, is all too often ignored by historians.  The book deals both with the religious and military aspects of this tragic rebellion.

Rochester, Ralph

For Love of Williamina

Dorset, Agre, 2001

First Edition. Fine in card wraps (no hardback edition).

Signed by the author.

The moving true story of the last days of Williamina Belsches, first love of Sir Walter Scott - interspersed with poems.  Williamina sought relief from consumption in the village of Lympstone on the Exe Estuary, taking with her her youngest child, James. A fascinating and poignant glimpse of life in Georgian times in East Devon.