Elizabeth Carfrae – THE DEVIL’S JEST (1928) – West Indies, Magic & Superstition

CARFRAE, Elizabeth [1879–1968] – THE DEVIL’S JEST New York – Harper & Brothers 1928 1^st US ed. (vi), 7-299, (i). Olive yellow cloth lettered in red on spine and upper board.

Condition : Very good in a slightly torn but very good Grosset & Dunlap dustwrapper.

About : The story of an Englishman on a “godforsaken “ West Indies island who falls under the spell of native superstition and is bewitched by a native woman. In Bleiler. Originally published by Mills and Boon in the UK in 1926.