Things to Live For: Notes for an Autobiography

First American edition. Octavo. 278pp. Cloth. Endpapers are slightly tanned, small bookstore label front pastedown, else a near fine copy in not quite very good, price-clipped dust jacket illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff, with a few moderate chips and tears. An uncommon title in dust jacket. the dust jacket design of this first American edition differs from the design of the British edition, which was published by Jonathan Cape in 1934. Poet Lydia C. Prescott's copy, with her striking, real-photograph bookplate on front pastedown:an original silverprint photograph depicting an open book, resting upon a table in a dark room, with a flickering candle next to the open book. Prescott was the author of *Planet Descending.*.