Innocence Abroad; [Inscribed Association Copy]

B & W Photo Portraits; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 324 pages; [SIGNED association copy] 1931 Alfred A. Knopf. HC. First edition, Association copy, warmly inscribed by Clark in the month of publication to fellow novelist Isa Glenn (1874—1951), whose endorsement appears on the publisher’s promotional belly band among those praising the work. Clark, founding editor of The Reviewer, the influential Richmond literary magazine associated with the early Southern Literary Renaissance - thanks Glenn for having written “the most perfect of blurbs,” linking the copy directly to the book’s contemporary publicity and literary reception. Cloth shows moderate fading at spine with light crimping at spine ends. Light toning and mild soiling to endpages. A series of literary profiles and reminiscences centered on figures associated with The Reviewer and the broader literary culture of the period, including James Branch Cabell, Ellen Glasgow, H. L. Mencken, Carl Van Vechten, Elinor Wylie, Julia Peterkin, DuBose Heyward, and others, illustrated with b&w portrait reproductions. VG-; Author Signed by Author.…