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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. First Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's linen in red pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.75), black topstain; [8],442pp. Moderate wear to jacket extremities, coin-sized chip at spine crown not quite approaching text, spine panel additionally a bit toned, as are endpapers, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Signed by the author on front free endpaper.

The novelist's account of a round-the-world trip taken in 1939, billed as "a last look at the world...a world poised for war" (rear jacket panel).