The Bride's House

New York: Brentano's, (1929).

Price: $2,750.00

Hardcover. First edition, preceding the trade edition. Bookplate on the front fly, moderate darkening to the spine, and a slight scuff on the rear board, near fine in vellum with gilt lettering and decoration as issued. Copy 108 of 200 numbered copies Signed by the author. Original calling card from the publisher laid in, signed by Brentano's sales person. A nice copy of the author's only limited edition, her second acknowledged book, after *She Walks in Beauty*, and her repudiated first novel *Whither*.

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Item #97544 The Bride's House. Dawn POWELL.
The Bride's House

Dawn Powell
birth name: Dawn Powell
born: 11/28/1896
died: 11/14/1965
nationality: USA

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Biography

Satirical novelist based in Greenwich Village. Although published continuously during her lifetime, Powell never achieved widespread readership and was more fully appreciated several decades after her death, when most of her works were finally brought back into print.more