Sing, Morning Star

First edition, first printing.  320pp.  Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine.  8vo.  Cloth a little tired, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends.  Hint of toning to text block edges.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  

Historical romance novel telling the love story of Malcolm, King of the Scots and his Queen, Margaret.   Jane Conway was the pen name of novelist Helen Rees, the daughter of a Scottish country doctor.  She is perhaps best remembered for the novels she co-authored with Anne Pedlar.  An aviator herself, she married pilot John Llewellyn Rees in 1939.  Rees was killed a year later in a flying accident and after his death Helen became convinced that she remained in communication with him – transcripts survive of their ‘automatic writing’ conversations.  Spiritualism and contact with the dead became a feature of some of her post-war fiction.