The Green Hat: A Romance for a Few People

London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1924. Very Good+/Very Good+. London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1924. First Edition with no additional printings listed. Octavo (20 cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 329pp+3ads. Fore-edge uncut and pages unopened. Jacket lightly soiled and scuffed with toning to spine and joints, creases and minor tears to margins, and larger closed tear to top of front panel. Verso shows more significant toning, particularly to top margin. Board corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed with bumps to top margin, light scuffing to back cover, and minor bubbling to cloth at a few edges. Pages uniformly toned with (truncated) brief pencil to first free endsheet, otherwise pages clean. Overall a Very Good or better example. 

Arlen's most popular novel, following femme-fatale Iris through Bohemian post-WWI London as she engages in multiple romantic affairs. It was adapted into the 1928 film The Woman of Affairs, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Greta Garbo. To appeal to the censors, the main topics of homosexuality, STDs, and heroin use were written out of the screenplay. . (Inventory #: 33161)