The Ship of Truth

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good+. 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [light shelfwear, minor bumping to rear corners, very slight browning to spine cloth; a couple of pages roughly opened near end of book, with resultant ragged fore-edges]. Religion-themed novel about a Yorkshire clergyman and his passage (per a contemporary review) "from enthusiasm to doubt and, falteringly, from doubt to faith." The same reviewer commented that the book was "written honestly and interestingly enough, and with more than a dash of humour." In England, it reportedly won a publisher's prize, from a field of four hundred entrants. The author (1897-1994) was born in Leeds, and many of her books had a Yorkshire setting. .