by Ethel Mannin
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1930.
First American edition, first printing.
1930 date printed to the title page, $4.00 price printed to the jacket flap.
Illustrated with forty-six photographs on glossy black-and-white plates and with nine maps.
The novelist, poet, travel writer, socialist, activist, feminist, author's first book is her autobiographical memoir of the 1920s and includes her very frank accounts and opinions about politics, sex, relationships, the numerous other authors she associated with, her family, schooling, 1920s events, her writing career, and so much more.
Released to extreme popularity in 1930, it was published, due to demand, as one of the first penguin paperbacks, produced for the mass market.
A significant, women's, literary, and historical collectible.
End-papers tanned as usual, wear to the upper spine end, else very good in blue linen with green embossed titles and rules to the front cover and to the spine; in a very good dust jacket with tanning to the spine panel, heavy chipping to the upper spine end, light chipping to the lower spine end, and slight age-toning to the jacket borders; original printed $4.00 price still intact to the front inner flap.
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