Beyond The Blue Mountains

New York: D. Appleton-Century. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1947. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Cover Art; First Edition, with the number 1 in parentheses on the last page of text. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The endpapers have blocks of toning. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and spots of wrinking, especially to the spine ends and corners. "During the 1930s, Hibbert wrote nine long novels (each about 150,000 words in length) , all of them serious psychological studies of contemporary life. However, none of these were accepted for publication. At the same time, she wrote short stories for newspapers such as the Daily Mail and Evening News. Some also appeared in The Star, Woman's Realm and Ladies' Home Journal. The turning point came when fiction editor of the Daily Mail told her, "You're barking up the wrong tree: you must write something which is saleable, and the easiest way is to write romantic fiction." Hibbert read 50 romance novels as research and then published her first fiction book, Daughter of Anna, in 1941. It was a period novel set in Australia of the late 18th and 19th centuries. It was a moderate success and Hibbert received £30 as advance for it." (from Wikipedia) .