Bobbie, General Manager

Frederick A. Stokes, 1913. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1913 Frederick A. Stokes. First Edition. First printing. No additional printings listed. NOT ex-library. Early novel by the author of Stella Dallas and Now, Voyager. Hardcover has blue cloth-covered boards with paper color illustration on the front cover with gold highlights and an illustrated peacock feather border. Cover depicts a young woman sitting on a window seat and writing; there is a No Trespassing sign near her feet. Color frontispiece with tissue guard; four additional color plates. Illustrations by Maria L. Kirk. Title page has an illustrated floral border. 354 pages. Covers have moderate edge wear and surface rubbing, with some small stains and scuffs. The illustration on the front cover is chipped and rubbed, with a small area of loss at the border. The front free endpaper had been torn out. Both hinges cracked, some webbing showing, not broken. Pages lightly tanned, more so at periphery, but still supple. Page edges lightly soiled and nicked. NO highlighting or other markings. A few pages have small light stains, mostly in the margins. The tissue guard on the frontispiece has several creases. Small bookstore sticked on rear endpaper. Dust jacket is missing. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.