Dawson (Margaret Cheney) City Harvest
£125
London, Lovat Dickson, 1934.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
A New York novel “throwing against a typically frivolous party background some of the most serious emotional problems which confront the modern sophisticate” (jacket blurb).
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Cloth slightly mottled at spine; jacket with some toning and minor dust-soiling, a few small closed tears, otherwise very good.
Jacket artwork by Wilkies.
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