Helena ira over red boards by Morrell

over red boards by Morrell

with commentary and English translation

300 copies

London: printed at the Stanhope Press by Charles Whittingham for J Sharpe and sold by W Suttaby Stationers' Court Ludgate Street

pictorial dust-jacket from a photo by Cecil Beaton and coloured title lettering

Helena ira over red boards by MorrellLondon: Chapman & Hall, 1950. First Edition, first impression. Original blue cloth with the excellent and unclipped dust jacket with Daily Mail Book of the Month wraparound band, also excellent. Light soiling to backstrip of jacket, else fine. Waugh's historical novel on the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I.