Yellow Sands: A Comedy in Three Acts
- London: Duckworth, 1926
London: Duckworth, 1926. Very Good/Good. London: Duckworth, 1926. First Edition. Small octavo; green boards stamped in black; yellow dust jacket with black titling; 143pp. Dust jacket neatly split along front spine edge with small loss at crown, dark dampstaining to dust jacket spine crown bleeding into both panels with brief paper remnants to cloth spine crown, light toning throughout text block, otherwise pages are unmarked and binding is sound. Overall a Very Good copy in a Good jacket.
Adelaide Phillpotts was the childhood neighbor of Agatha Christie. She went on to write under the name "Adelaide Ross" after breaking ties with her creepy and incestuous father, Eden, and marrying American bookseller Nicholas Ross. Yellow Sands was adapted to film in 1938 starring Marie Tempest, Belle Chrystall, and Wilfrid Lawson.
Adelaide Phillpotts was the childhood neighbor of Agatha Christie. She went on to write under the name "Adelaide Ross" after breaking ties with her creepy and incestuous father, Eden, and marrying American bookseller Nicholas Ross. Yellow Sands was adapted to film in 1938 starring Marie Tempest, Belle Chrystall, and Wilfrid Lawson.