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London: Desmond Harmsworth, (1932).

Price: $1,000.00

Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. Black cloth lettered in red. Edgewear on the boards, a good or better copy lacking the rare dust jacket. Norman Douglas' copy with a note in pencil by him on the front endpaper: "Belongs to N.D." An autobiographical novel of prison life by Jean Langlet, written under a pseudonym, after the author was convicted of embezzlement. Reportedly the novel was essentially completely re-written by Langlet's wife, the author Jean Rhys. Exceptionally scarce.

Item #539933

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Item #539933 Barred. Edward de NEVE, Jean Rhys Jean Lenglet, Norman Douglas.
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