December Bride. London: Dobson, 1951. First Edition. Pp, 299. A good copy in chipped and repaired pictorial dust jacket. Foxing to front and rear endpapers and title page and also page edges.

Presentation copy, inscribed and dated 1951 by the Author.

A story of love, scandal, and restrictive social mores, December Bride is a classic novel of Ulster life by one of its greatest writers, and was made into a major feature film in 1991, directed by Thaddeus O’Sullivan. Sam Hanna Bell was a gifted broadcaster who wrote four novels, the finest of which is this his debut novel, December Bride.