WEDDING DAY AND OTHER STORIES

BOYLE, Kay

Published by Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York, 1930

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Cloth, and decorated boards, matching endsheets. The ownership signature of her occasional publisher, James Laughlin appears on the first free endsheet. Spine faded, light wear to corners and edges, but a good or better copy, lacking the dust jacket. First U.S. edition of the author's first trade book, having been published by the Black Sun Press in a deluxe edition of one hundred fifty copies in the previous year. This book is dedicated to Laurence Vail, the Dada sculptor and writer, who Boyle met in 1928. Vail was then married to Peggy Guggenheim. Boyle and Vail lived together between 1929 until 1932 when, following their divorces, they married; they were divorced in 1943.

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Title
WEDDING DAY AND OTHER STORIES
Author
BOYLE, Kay
Publisher
Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York
Publication year
1930
Condition
Good or better.
Dust jacket
Dust Jacket Included
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
First edition.
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Expatriate Writers & Presses, Modernism, Women & Women's History

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