Search Results: jennifer lorn a sedate extravaganza by wylie elinor

George H Doran Company, 1923. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Cover is w.

George H. Doran Co., NY, 1923. Date same on title and copyright. Hardcover. very good/No Jacket. NOT an ex library book. Book with red leather spine and corners, marble boards. 302 pages.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923 Book. Good Only. Hardcover. Second Printing. Second printing in scarce dust jacket. Book and dust jacket are worn with soils, scuffs, edge wear, etc. A reading copy. 302 pages..

Paperback / softback. New.

Read & Co. Books, 2020. Paperback. New. 219 pages. 8.50x5.51x0.55 inches.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: George H. Doran, 1923. Book. Fine. Half Cloth over Marbled Boards. First Edition. 8vo. NY: Doran, 1923. Jennifer Lorn: A Sedate Extravaganza. Complete herein in three books. Illuminating episodes in the lives of The Hon. Gerald Poynyard and his Bride. First edition. Half cloth over marble boards, 302 pp., rough-cut. Engraved decorations. Topstained. No dust jacket. Fine..

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: George H. Doran, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good-. Early printing, NOT a First Edition as Doran symbol missing from copyright page; SIGNED by Wylie on ffep; 8vo, three-quarter red cloth, no dj; vg- (shelfworn, paper on bottom edge of boards heavily worn and scraped; nick to paper on front board; spine sunned; spine ends bumped and worn; top edge darkened; edges, eps, and pages toned; discolored marks to eps); 302pp.

New York: George H. Doran Company on Murray Hill, 1923. Very Good/Very Good. New York: George H. Doran Company on Murray Hill, 1923. First Edition, issue B with title page a cancel as usual. Octavo. 302 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Tan cloth stamped in gilt over marbled boards. Dust jacket lightly edgeworn with mild general soiling and spine sunned. Boards with mild shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good copy of Wylie's first novel.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First trade edition, with corrected titlepage. Half red cloth gilt and marbled paper over boards. Gilt is a little dull but readable on the spine, else near fine in very good or better dust jacket with some light toning at the spine.

New York: George H. Doran Co, 1923. First edition of the author's first novel, 8vo, pp. 302-[303]; original pictorial dust-jacket worn, with short tears entering from the margins, top and bottom of spine chipped with slight loss, tears closed on verso. Published in the year Ms. Wylie married for the third time and final time, to the poet and editor William Rose Benet.

New York: George H. Doran, 1923. First edition, first printing, issue B, with the corrected, tipped-in title-page. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth and boards. VG. Bookplate of mary Kennedy (Wife of Deems Taylor). First edition, first printing, issue B, with the corrected, tipped-in title-page. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed "Mary Kennedy from Elinor Wylie May 1925." BAL 23495

New York: Doran, 1923. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine dull and with a crease, a fore-corner a bit jammed. 8vo. Original tan cloth and marbled boards. First edition, second printing as usual with tipped-in corrected title-page (only one located at Yale is known of the first printing). Presentation copy, inscribed by Wylie on front flyleaf to the wife of the author Joseph Hergesheimer: "To Dorothy Hergesheimer / From Eleanor Wylie / December 1923 / This Excess in Veneer." Wylie presentation copies are uncommon. BAL 23495. (BA).

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. First edition of poet Elinor Wylie's fantastic Orientalist romance, her first novel, inscribed to Sinclair Lewis. The narrative follows an indolent English bride's travels across the East through a comic pastiche of eighteenth-century fictional clichés: "a Supreme Councillor returning to Bengal once had the audacity to send a glass of champagne and a magnificent pineapple to her cabin, with his respectful queries as to her welfare; only this personage's obvious senility prevented Gerald from giving him a glance over the card-table which would have curdled his blood forever against the most torrid suns of India." This copy of Jennifer Lorn was presented in the month of publication to Wylie's friend and mentor Sinclair Lewis, "who persuaded her that writing fiction was the way to earn money." The novel received bewildered but respectful reviews from contemporary critics. Lewis himself approved of her first effort: "At last, a civilized American novel." See E.H.… Read More