first edition Hardcover
1911 · London
by BEERBOHM, Max
London: William Heinemann, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first impression. Octavo. Smooth brown cloth gilt. Tiny tear at the crown, corners a little bumped, very good or better without dust jacket. Beerbohm's only novel, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford where the eponymous heroine lures numerous suitors with her charms but rejects them, driving them to suicide. Selected by the Modern Library's Board of Editors as one of the 100 Best 20th Century novels in English. (Inventory #: 537728)