Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932.
Price: $50.00
Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. xiii, 299pp. Handsome bookseller ticket ("The Wm. P. Clarke Co. Newport, R.I.") on rear pastedown. Tiny bookplate of industrialist and art collector Henry O. Havemeyer ("Mountain Side Farm, Mahwah, N. J.") and gift inscription ("To My Husband–", almost certainly by his wife Louisine) on the front endleaves. Spine titling a bit dulled and corners just worn through, still a bright, near fine copy lacking the dust jacket. Henry O. Havemeyer was an industrialist in the sugar business; his wife Louisine was a prominent art collector (especially of Impressionist art) and suffragette.
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