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Sadly, the dust-wrapper to the first (Cape) edition of The Secret Kingdom is the dullest of all Greenwood's dust-wrappers: But the novel itself is not dull. Walter Greenwood’s father was a hairdresser and by the time he married Elizabeth Matilda Walter he had opened his own hairdresser’s shop (‘Tom’s Hairdressing Saloon’) at 56 Ellor Street,… Continue reading The Secret Kingdom (1938) by Walter Greenwood

  The dust-wrapper to Greenwood's third novel is similar in style to that of both Love on the Dole in its first edition (now almost unobtainable in its dust-wrapper) and his second novel, His Worship the Mayor (1934). In fact, only the dust-wrapper of the third novel is signed, revealing that the iconic chimneys of Love… Continue reading Standing Room Only (1936) by Walter Greenwood

The dust-wrapper of Greenwood's second novel was much more abstract that that of his first - indeed the design is constructed simply from a yellow line round the text of the novel's title, perhaps indicating how the new Mayor is set apart by his (undeserved) status. In 1934, after the success of his first novel,… Continue reading His Worship the Mayor (1934) by Walter Greenwood