Winifred Graham — The Man Behind the Chair

London, Hutchinson & Co. [1935]. First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of Winifred Graham's thriller, The Man Behind the Chair. With a letter typed and signed by the author tipped in. A signed copy of this thriller by Winifred Graham, with a typeset letter signed in ink by the author tipped in. Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper. The ink inscription reads, 'To dear Lady Gower, With warmest wishes from the author Winifred. That You + yours have the happiest possible Christmas. December 1935&apos. The addressee could be Rose Constance Leveson-Gower, who was an elder sister of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and was therefore a maternal aunt of Queen Elizabeth II. With a typed letter, signed in ink by the author addressed to Dorothy. Winifred Graham was an English novelist and anti-Mormon activist who published romantic novels and thrillers, a highly critical popular history of Mormonism, and works critical of Zionism, Christian Science, Roman Catholicism, and the women's suffrage. With a forty eight page catalogue of publisher's adverts to the rear. In the publisher's original red cloth binding. Externally, smart. Lightly rubbed to the spine, with a mark to the front board. Lightly bumped to the head and tail of the spine, with a small closed tear to the tail. The boards are a little bumped to the extremities, and there is tear in the cloth that extends down the rear joint. Internally, generally firmly bound, with the gutter visible at a few points. Pages are bright and clean throughout. Good . Ill.: None. Good .