[spine very slightly turned, faint dust-soiling to top edge; jacket lightly faded at spine, faint soiling to front panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "To L. Alexander Mack, / as a souvenir of many years / of work and play with the author, / Chas. F. Howell --- / New York, August 24, 1936." Intermingled love story and travelogue, combining "an intelligently conducted tour through the [British] Isles" with the tale of a young American tourist who convinces her traveling companion that they should hire a handsome young Irishman as their courier (guide) on th... View More...
[solid book, but with a bit of deterioration to the cloth along both the top and bottom edges, some light spotting to the edges of the text block, and small tape mark on the ffep; jacket is edgeworn and age-toned, with some shallow chipping at top of spine (no loss of text), tiny pull-tear in middle of spine blemishing the "S" in the author's last name]. Uncommon book by this Tennessee-born Modernist novelist/poet/playwright, and the only work for which she employed the "Ernest Souza" pseudonym. Its publishers tried to give it a double-barreled pitch, jacket-blurbing it as an... View More...
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