Family Orchestra by Mary Howard

British writer Mary Mussi, née Edgar (1907–1991) authored more than fifty romance novels under the pen name Mary Howard. Her Family Orchestra from 1945 contains “three thrilling love stories”. The shown Canadian paperback edition was published by Collins as White Circle Books 254 in 1946, with cover art by Margaret Paull (1920–2008).

The unconnected brush script with the unconventional stress is Frank H. Riley’s Grayda, first cast by ATF in 1939. Howard’s name is in black Futura caps. The last two and a half letters had to be traced in outline to make them stand out from the dark bakground.