Item #310 1939. Kay BOYLE.

1939.

New York: Simon & Schuster, [1948]. First edition. Original orange cloth, titles in black, signature block to front board in black. Pastedowns slightly darkened at gutters, lower edges a trifle shelf-worn, else a very good copy in a lightly edgeworn, hand-soiled pictorial dust jacket. 

First edition. A topic Boyle often returns to as she knows it so well: Set in the French Alps at the onset of WWII, an incorruptible French woman loves a corrupt, opportunistic Austrian. Very good. / Good. Item #310

Price: $30.00