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LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 266. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1933 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 266.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Illustrated by (dj) Maxwell (illustrator). First Edition. (no dust jacket, although the front panel of the original dj is affixed to the front cover, and the front jacket flap affixed to the front pastedown) [ex-rental library book, stamped as such ("Variety Circulating Library") on front and rear endpapers, title page, and a couple of text pages; ffep removed with consequent weakening of front hinge, externally worn but not too extremely, considering]. Novel about the Singleton family, a clan of rich aristocrats (are there any other kind?) who fashion themselves as "experimenters in modern marriage, who consider breaking the seventh commandment to be the first commandment of 'civilized marriage'." (I'll save you the trouble of looking it up: in this context, that's the one about not committing adultery, although depending on which sort of Christian you happen to be, sometimes it's the one about not stealing.) Anyway, here's how that goes in this book: "Husbands are supposed to smile when they see their wives in other men's arms; wives are supposed to find themselves lovers when they see their husbands in other women's rooms. The civilized way!" This is classic Macaulay pop-fiction territory, i.e. spinning a plot around some "scandalous" modern fad, and also has an interesting backstory: "Ann Du Pre" was the pseudonym of radical/Communist writer Grace Lumpkin, who published at least three novels under the Du Pre name during the same period of time she was turning out serious, respected prole fiction such as "To Make My Bread" (1932) and "A Sign for Cain" (1935). And it gets even MORE interesting when you contemplate the fact that Du Pre/Lumpkin herself was involved in some unorthodox semi-monogamous cohabitation situations during the late 1920s and 1930s.