Raymond, Ernest — Damascus Gate

Cassell & Co 1923 2nd impression. Cloth, G+. [viii]+311pp, cloth rubbed at the edges, spine lettering dulled, occasional foxing, a fair copy. The author's third novel. In a 1945 article, titled 'Good Bad Books' George Orwell praised Raymond as a 'natural novelist" who could portray convincingly the lives of ordinary people, but who's prose was clumsy and long-winded.