Cartwheels

Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. [good sound copy, light shelfwear, small bookseller's rubber-stamped name (Bertrand Smith's Acres of Books, Long Beach, Calif.) at bottom corner of front pastedown; the jacket is moderately edgeworn, with a few small nicks and light soiling, minor creasing, and a tiny hole worn through at the front hinge]. Subtitled (on the jacket only) "The Education of Dan Andrews," this is a novel about a young widower, the headmaster at a boys' boarding school, who has somewhat radical ideas about turning the school into "a vital experimental station in education where the boys would really be taught to live in this modern world." He is encouraged in his plans and dreams by the wife of one of the school's brilliant but erratic faculty members, and finds himself falling in love with her. .