Daphne Winslow

New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1933). Later Printing. Hardcover. [a nice tight clean copy, with just a touch of wear at the spine ends, remnant of old price sticker on rear pastedown; the jacket is lightly edgeworn, faintly soiling along the spine, and has a small closed tear and some associated creasing at the bottom edge of the front panel]. Novel set in the art and society world of New York City, about the widow of a renowned artist. "Daphne's husband had been a great artist. He died leaving her with two children. Returning from Paris and the artistic world, she comes to New York and is projected through old friends into Society and its contacts." In addition to her novelistic activities, the author knew the art world well, having studied in New York and Paris, and having "exhibited portraits at the Society of American Artists, the National Academy of Design, the Water Color Society, Paris Salon and the Royal Academy, London." (Quoted from her bio on the rear jacket panel.) This was her sixth published novel and, as it turned out, her last, although it was followed by a book of autobiographical reminiscences, "Ladies, Lovers and Other People," in 1935. .