WALPOLE, SIR HUGH — The Bright Pavillions

NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1940. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, blind-stamped medallion on cover, top edge red, cream endpapers, fore-edge deckle. NB: The Bright Pavilions is a 1940 historical novel by Hugh Walpole, serving as a prequel to his popular Herries Chronicle series, set in Elizabethan England and focusing on the Herries family's early history, divided loyalties, and romance before their move to the Lake District. It's a standalone addition that expands the saga, exploring the family's life during a period of political turmoil. Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole was an English novelist. A prolific writer, he published thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two plays and three volumes of memoirs. His skill at scene-setting, his vivid plots, his high profile as a lecturer and his driving ambition brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America.. Spine lightly sunned, gilt on spine faded, showing only the slightest signs of use, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD.. Herries Chronicle. 5. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (iv), 502, (2) pages. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket .