Beatrice Chase — Through a Dartmoor Window & a Dartmoor Window Again

London , Longmans, Green and Co, 1918. Cloth. A two volume set of Beatrice Chase's dramatic novels set in the moorland of South Devon. Illustrated frontispieces of the building of a home and a portrait of Mr. Bluejacket. Beatrice Chase was the pen name for a British writer, who became well known for her Dartmoor-based novels during the first half of the 20th century. Her real name was Olive Katharine Parr, and she claimed to be directly descended from William Parr, the brother of Catherine, the sixth wife of Henry VIII. In a cloth binding with pictorial boards. Externally, generally smart with some shelfwear and corners and head and tails of spine are bumped. Front hinges strained but firm. Ink inscription to front free end-paper and pastedown. Internally, firmly bound with light foxing to first few pages, otherwise bright and clean. Good . Ill.: None. Good .