M. P. SHIEL: A BIOGRAPHY OF HIS EARLY YEARS by (Shiel, Matthew Phipps) Billings, Harold - 2005

Austin: Roger Beacham Publisher, 2005. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-201 [202-203] [204: blank], illustrations, red cloth, printed paper labels on spine and front panels, pictorial endpapers. First edition. 250 copies printed of which this is one of 50 numbered hardbound copies signed by Billings. Biography of the early years of West Indian born British writer Matthew Phipps Shiel which includes texts of previously unpublished letters and documents, as well never before published family photographs. The book tells the story of Shiel's ancestors, his youth on the island of Montserrat, school in Barbados and England, and his years as a young writer in London in the last two decades of the nineteenth century. A fine "as new" copy with plain Mylar dust jacket. (#156878)