Rose and Sylvie

350pp. [1938]. Beige cloth boards (a little rubbed and worn on corners and joints, one corner softened. Ex library, with lending marks on front endpaper only, else internally clean and neat. In its original dust jacket, artwork by Watkiss, chipped and rubbed at edges, fraying at spine tips, scuffed). Ethel Mannin was a profilmic writer of the early to mid 20th century: this novel, loosely based on the true story of a servant girl who runs away with the daughter of the house, is one of her harder to find titles. 0