first edition Hardcover
1932 · New York
by STRAUS, Ralph
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1932. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Slight foxing on the endpapers and title page else fine in an attractive, near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with some tiny nicks and tears. An amusing chronicle of the evolution of a novel. The jacket has a facetious blurb by bookseller A.S.W. Rosenbach: "I have gladly paid seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the manuscript of 'A Whip for a Woman.' (Inventory #: 46623)