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hardcover. Condition: Good. 1932 JM Dent first edition with dust jacket.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

First Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth over boards, stained top edge, deckled edge, color decorated dust jacket. Novel 'for women only,' about two young married women who go on holiday together. Near Fine in Good dust jacket, closed tears at top spine area, some light staining at lower spine end, some fading to spine, some spine end chips, edgewear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good- dj. Illustrated by Robert Austin (illustrator). First American Edition. (price-clipped) [nice clean copy with minor shelfwear only; jacket is edgeworn, with tiny chips at bottom corners of front panel, a number of short tears at corners and edges, spine moderately faded but still readable, tiny label with author's name affixed to lower spine]. (line drawings) A novel that comes with a warning: "Men are herewith warned, and women advised, that this is a book for women. Women alone will appreciate it, understand it, love it. [It] is just a joyous, light-hearted account of the holiday trip taken by two young married women both intelligent yet frivolous. Having no men along, they could be wholly feminine in their observations and confidences and renew without reticence the comparing of notes begun years before when they were girls in school together. If you nurse a secret longing -- and who of us does not? -- to 'get away from it all' for a while, this book was written for you." Published the previous year in England by J.M. Dent & Sons.

First edition. Octavo. pp [viii], 216. Top edge gilt. A story of the holiday of two women in Venice. The line-drawn illustrations are by the author's husband Robert Austin. They collaborated on a number of books.One of 75 numbered copies signed by the author. The limitation page promises an engraving signed by the artist, but this in fact never appeared.Fine in good dustwrapper a bit faded at the spine and with several nicks and closed tears.