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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. Near Fine/Near Fine. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. First Edition. Octavo. 195 pp. Printed dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket and boards show very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise unmarked.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. First Edition. Octavo. 295 pp. Illustrated art-deco dust jacket with original $2.50 price present. Purple and pink boards stamped in gilt. Decorative endpapers. Dust jacket chipped with general rubbing. Boards worn along edges and gilt lettering scuffed. Binding is sound. Half title worn with loss of thin strip along bottom edge. Pages otherwise unmarked. Newman gained critical acclaim with her first novel, Hard-boiled Virgin, which garnered high praise from the likes of Sherwood Anderson and James Branch Cabell. Her satirical and feminist take on Southern culture shocked those in her native Atlanta, and both her first novel and second, Dead Lovers, were banned in Boston for their sexual allusions. Newman's life and career were tragically cut short following the publication of Dead Lovers, from a brain hemorrhage or possibly a drug overdose after experiencing vision problems while travelling in Europe.… Read More

New York: Doubleday & McClure Co, 1900. Very Good. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1900. First Edition, first printing with cancel title page, "...of the bone pro-" ending p. 64 and "truding. While Lloyd..." at top of p. 65. Octavo; publisher's red pictorial cloth stamped in white and gilt; [6],286pp. Light rubbing to cloth margins, spine lettering a bit dulled, faint soil to textblock fore-edge, else Very Good and sound. Adventure novel set during an expedition to the North Pole during which the leader of the expedition and the accompanying nurse fall in love while the men of his expedition die slow, terrible deaths. Norris was frustrated to discover after the plates for this first edition were set that the title had already been used and copyrighted for a play by Mrs. Crawford Flexner but it was too late to change. [BAL 15034; McElrath A5.1.a].