Tom Merry’s Triumph (Signed and Inscribed Association copy)

First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Frank Richards, to Edith Hood, on half title page. Frank Richards was one of several pen names of Charles Hamilton. Hamilton first met Edith Hood in 1914 when he stayed in rooms above the post office in the Kent village of Hawkinge – Edith was a play friend of the post mistress’s daughter but she served as his housekeeper and close confident from the early 1930s until Hamilton’s death in 1961. Hood continued to live in Hamilton’s cottage, Rose Lawn, in Kingsgate in Kent, for years after his death until she moved into a nursing home in Broadstairs in 1980. Red cloth boards (cloth rounded at spine tips) in period pictorial dust jacket (very slight rubbing at extremities, small closed nick at base). Occasional spotting on text block edge. Dust jacket now protected in archival quality mylar wrapper. Internally bright, clean, neat and tight. From the author of the Billy Bunter books. 0

Signed Books, billy bunter, charles hamilton, edith hood, kent