Dry Martini: A Gentleman Turns to Love

New York: George H. Doran Company. Very Good. (c.1926). First Edition. Hardcover. (red cloth with pictorial paste-on label on front cover, title/author label on spine; no dust jacket) [good solid copy, minor bumping and light wear to extremities, tiny dent in top edge of front cover, contemporary gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep, vintage bookseller's label (Burns, Baltimore) on rear pastedown]. Classic comic novel of the 1920s, set in Paris but somewhat unusual in that it focuses not on the au courant world of the Left Bank but rather on the remnants of Edwardian Era society on the Right Bank. The author's only novel, its critical and commercial success wasn't enough to save him from an early death from alcoholism in 1932. Adapted as a 1928 silent film (apparently no longer extant) by the Fox Film Corporation, starring Mary Astor, Matt Moore and Sally Eilers. . (Inventory #: 25459)