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Hard cover 8vo in attractive trade decorated binding printed with a landscape scene in cream and dark green upon a lighter green cloth. Titles in cream to front and spine, 388 pp. plus 7 page publisher's catalogue. Benziger Magazine order blank laid in. Condition: Very Good Plus or better, with slight sunning to spine, edges a bit dusty and mildly toned. Author Rev. Michael Earls (1875-1937) was a Massachusetts-born Jesuit priest who earned a literary masters degree from Georgetown University before entering the seminary. He wrote poetry, novels, short stories and a play in addition to teaching English at Holy Cross University in Worcester, who have his archival material. Not surprisingly, the novel is a somewhat heavily-messaged Catholic reflection on marriage and duty, but not without a good bit of drama and suspense. A young woman, Elenora Gomez, has been raising her younger siblings after the death of her parents, and she has been training to entering a convent. However, true love seems set to intervene in the person of Oliver Plunket, from Manchester by the Sea. He is set to begin teaching at the fictional Glendalough College, and upon reading this, Nora jumps onto a train heading into Boston to meet up with destiny. **Decorative Designers, the company responsible for the book's illustrated binding, is noted by the monogram of two Ds, one reversed and intersecting, which appears on the cover. Founded by former architect, Henry Thayer, they were considered an important American book design firm, and employed a large number of freelance artists, until the company's closure in 1931. OCLC 13681454.
Ref: FICT20 8856
$95.00