"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. "
— Oscar Wilde
If I Were You.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1931. [Humour] FIRST EDITION. This edition preceding the UK publication. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; 305; [I] blank. Publisher's orange cloth titled in brown to spine and upper board, pictorial dust-jacket drawn by Henrietta Starrett, with printed price of $2.00. Endpapers lightly toned otherwise internally bright and clean, faint erased inscription to rear free endpaper. Cloth lightly handled. Dust-jacket worn with numerous tears and quite a lot of loss. A near fine copy in a good wrapper. Focusing on the romantic escapades of the Earl of Droitwich, Anthony Brice, whose life is turned topsy-turvy when his nanny pays him a visit. Before the publication of this novel in book form, it was released in four instalments in 'The American Magazine'. Item #52294
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