first edition Hardcover
1924 · London
by FABIAN, Warner [pseudonym of Samuel Hopkins Adams]
London: Stanley Paul and Co, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First British edition. Very good with small owner inscription on front free endpaper in a good dustwrapper with rear panel detached but still present inside book. A jazz age novel in which the heroine, with her doom impending, decides to live out her life in a frenzy of revelry and hectic pleasures. Basis for the 1928 silent film featuring Mary Astor and directed by D.W. Griffith-protégé Joseph Henabery. (Inventory #: 80140)