Bolton (Isabel, pseud. Mary Britton Miller) Do I Wake or Sleep
£125
New York, Charles Scribner, 1946.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original blue cloth, priced $2.50.
The first volume in the loosely construed trilogy ‘New York Mosaic’.
In stock
Minor toning to pages; spine of cloth and dust-jacket slightly darkened, otherwise very good.
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