first edition
1931 · Boston
by Vardis Fisher
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. Very Good/Very Good -. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); green and white dust jacket with $2.50 price intact; boards in green cloth with black lettering and decoration; blue topstain; [iv],376pp. Jacket rubbed and chipped along edges with a larger chip to front panel along spine just touching text; general toning and smudging to surface; clumsy tape repair to folds on verso. Boards bumped at corners, with a small patch of faint discoloration along spine. Spine a bit cocked at head, with bumping at ends. 1947 gift inscription to front free endpaper. Opens easily between gatherings (truncated)