(rare signed 1942 Doubleday dj)
(Harlequin, 1951 pb; cover: illustrator Hammon?)
Thomas (Head) Raddall (1903-1994) was born at the quarters of the British Army School of Musketry near Folkestone, England where his father was a machine gun instructor, then moved to Halifax. Raddall was originally a short-story writer winning the Governor General Award for fiction in 1943 for his Pied Piper of Dipper Creek. He then became a historical novelist for books like those pictured above and The Nymph and the Lamp (1950). His Halifax, Warden of the North (1948) won the Governor General Award for non-fiction in 1948.