All This, and Heaven Too

Reprint.  448pp.  Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine.  8vo.  Cloth is rounded and softened at corners and spine ends, a little tired with title lettering faded.  Text block edges lightly spotted.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  Firmly bound.  In its original dust wrapper (redesigned from that which was one the original edition to tie in with the 1940 film of the book, starring Bette Davies, who features on the jacket), rubbed and creased on edges and joints, with minor crumbled loss at spine ends, shelf worn. Not price clipped.  Dust jacket in a removable, protective clear film sleeve.

Rachel Field (1894-1942) was a noted American author, perhaps best known for Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, but now often unduly overlooked.  All This, And Heaven Too, tells the story of Henriette Desportes, based on fact far stranger than fiction.  Desportes was governess to the family of the Duc and Duchess de Praslin but became embroiled in one of the most famous French murder cases which fed into the turmoil of the French Revolution.  Part of the story told here was turned into a film in 1940 starring Bette Davies and Charles Boyer.