Bad Girl
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1928). Arthur Hawkins, Jr. Early Reprint. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. [2] 3-275 Bound in green cloth with black lettering and rules stamped on front cover and spine. A bright copy with dust soiling on top edge and a bit of darkening to head of spine. In the illustrated dust jacket that with a couple chips, notably to head of spine, and with spine darkened and with a dime-size dampstain and a perforation the size of a chickpea. Please see photos. Very Good- / Good. Item #5717 Dust jacket illustrated by Arthur Hawkins, Jr. with a sensuous tablea amid angular shadows and geometric forms. Dust jacket now enclosed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
Early reprint, published a few months after the first printing. The sensational debut novel by Vina Delmar (1903-1990). Addressing taboo subjects including premarital sex and pregnancy set among tenement life, the novel gained initial notoriety and success by being banned in Boston. To capitalize on her popularity, Delmar quickly published two successive titles, also suggestive and gritty Kept Woman and Loose Ladies) before departing New York for Hollywood. There she wrote for the movies, with The Awful Truth (Cary Grant and Irene Dunne) garnering lasting fame as one of the best screwball comedies. This novel is dedicated "To Gene, Who Waited Downstairs," presumably her husband, Eugene Delmar.
Price: $150.00