GASKIN, CATHERINE — A Falcon for a Queen

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1972. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Paul Bacon. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has one small semi-closed tear to the bottom front panel, and a tiny chip to the top rear panel, along with some light rubbing and wear to the spine ends of the dust jacket. "Gaskin was born in Dundalk Bay, County Louth, Ireland in 1929. When she was only three months old, her parents moved to Australia, settling in Coogee, a suburb of Sydney, where she grew up. Her first novel This Other Eden, was written when she was 15 and published two years later. After her second novel, With Every Year, was published, she moved to London. Three best-sellers followed: Dust in Sunlight (1950) , All Else is Folly (1951) , and Daughter of the House (1952). She completed her best-known work, Sara Dane, on her 25th birthday in 1954, and it was published in 1955. It sold more than 2 million copies, was translated into a number of other languages, and was made into a television mini-series in Australia in 1982. This novel is loosely based on the life of the Australian convict businesswoman Mary Reibey, whose image has appeared on the Australian $20 note since 1994. Other novels included A Falcon for a Queen (1972) and The Summer of the Spanish Woman (1977). [3] " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .