The Doubling Rod

Overview:

  • Title: The Doubling Rod
  • Author: Ada Harrison
  • Year: 1957
  • Publisher: The Bodley Head
  • Price: 12/6
  • Pages: 190
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: The Doubling Rod
  • Notes:
    • 1st ed.
    • The title page should be checked for possible author credit as "Ada M. Harrison", the canonical name of the writer at UK and US national libraries.
    • Book spine and jacket spine display "The Bodley Head" and "Ada Harrison" --from images provided by one eBay dealer as of 2018-11-18.
    • OCLC 156746377 indicates credit as "Ada Harrison".
    • OCLC 30195107 reports "J. Lane" (John Lane) rather than (The) Bodley Head. That is a reprint edition, apparently from Amazon UK {{ASIN|B0000CJL1L}} as of 2018-11-18.
    • Price from brief review in "Anywhere but here and now" by Mary Crozier, Manchester Guardian 1957-04-12 p8 (moderately positive).