1913-1938 The Knave of Diamonds; The Rocks of Valpre; The Swindler; The Way of An Eagle; The Keeper of the Door; The Bars of Iron; The Safety Curtain; The Hundredth Chance; Greatheart; The Tidal Wave; The Lamp in the Desert; The Top of the World; The Passer-by and other stories; The House of Happiness; By Request; The Desire of his Life; Where Three Roads Meet; The Serpent in the Garden.

Description

First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Uncommon

All of these novels are in the original publisher's cloth binding, in a variety of colours.

The Tidal Wave, The House of Happiness, The Serpent in the Garden, The Swindler, The Bars of Iron, The Rocks of Valpre, The Knave of Diamonds, Greatheart, The Keeper of the Door, The Safety Curtain, By Request, Where Three Roads Meet and The Hundredth Chance are first editions of the works.

The Lamp in the Desert, The Top of the World, The Passer-by and other stories and The Desire of his Life are all undated, with their circa dates gathered from similar copies found on JISC.

This collection is comprised of eighteen novels of romance fiction by British author Ethel May Dell Savage, known by her simplified pen name of Ethel M. Dell. She wrote over thirty popular romance novels between 1911 and 1939, with The Way of an Eagle being her first novel. The Way of an Eagle in this particular collection is the twenty-fourth impression of the work. Her stories were often set in the British Raj and other old British colonial countries.

This particular collection gives us a wide insight into Dell's writing, as there are eighteen novels, spanning from her second novel ever published, The Knave of Diamonds, right up until her penultimate work, The Serpent in the Garden.