London: The Companion Book Club. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1958. Reprint; First Printing. Hardcover. Book Club Edition . Missing DJ, light sunning to spine with some foxing to boards, ink name to front endpaper, light foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to blue spine panel. Good reading copy. ; 320 pages; Set in a rural communuty at the end of the eighteenth century. The local Squire, Sir Charles Augustus Shelmadine, is bitterly opposed to progress and rules his tenant farmers with a firm if benevolent hand. When Sir Charles dies in a riding accident many see this as a chance for change as his only son Richard returns to England from India to inherit the title, lands and money. But the new Squire decides to enclose the land for his own benefit depriving many locals of their livelihoods. Also he has some very unusual friends, notably the strange Mr Mundford who never seems to grow any older and whose name is linked with the terrible Hell Fire Club. .

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Seller: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Seller's Inventory #: 29207
Title: Afternoon Of An Autocrat
Author: Lofts, Norah
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
Edition: Reprint; First Printing
Publisher: The Companion Book Club
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1958
Keywords: Book Club Edition
Bookseller catalogs: Historical Fiction;

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