"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. "
— Oscar Wilde
The Beautiful and Damned.
London: The Grey Walls Press, 1950. [Modern Literature] SECOND UK EDITION, first thus. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 447 [3]. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 12/6 to front flap. Toning to edges and endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Jacket toned to spine, with moderate general wear to edges. Very good. 'The Beautiful and the Damned' follows the decadent, jazz age couple, Anthony and Gloria. Although their first three years of marriage are filled with excitement and joy, this soon evaporates as they begin to be repulsed by each others' hedonistic identities. Item #73576
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