Guns Forever Echo [*SIGNED*]

New York: Julian Messner, Inc.. Good. (c.1941). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (no dust jacket) [moderately shelfworn, light bumping and minor wear evident at corners and spine ends, front hinge starting, vintage bookseller's rubber-stamped name (Bertrand Smith Acres of Books, Long Beach, Calif.) on front pastedown]. (endpaper maps) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the 2nd ffep: "For A. George Volck / With Sincere Personal Regards / Kenneth Wallis / 1941." Historical novel tracing five generations of the Elys clan of Great Yarmouth, England, through the 13th and 14th centuries, climaxing with the Battle of Crécy (1346), one of the most important battles of the Hundred Years' War. (The book's inscribee was a Hollywood agent of relatively minor stature, although he did represent actress Lillian Gish during the 1930s; he was partnered for a time with a fellow named Peter B. Hawks (no relation to Howard) in the Hawks-Volck Agency.) Signed by Author .