THE GODS ARRIVE

New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1932. First American Edition, first printing. Near fine. Octavo. Publisher's dark blue diagonal fine rib cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt to upper board and spine. Lovely creme yellow endsheets. 432 pp., printing code "(I)" on page 432, as called for. Dust jacket: wove paper, front and spine with black background, back and flaps with white background; front: two lines in white, drawing printed in black, white, and moderate greenish blue, of a country home and garden; both bindings and dust jacket "A" of two variants (which have no priority), as noted in Garrison. Near fine, in an about fine dust jacket with a few tiny chips at spine edge and at top and bottom.  "An Appreciation of Edith Wharton," by William Lyon Phelps occupies the entirety of the lower panel of the dust jacket.

Welcome to the Gilded Age of New York! The Gods Arrive is the continued story of a pair of lovers introduced in Wharton's Hudson River Bracketed: one a troubled writer, the other a married woman of the patrician New York patrician class whose jealous husband will not grant her a divorce. The pair flee to Europe, "the woman in revolt against her inherited society, the man involved in a deep spiritual struggle against his weaker self," -- from the publisher.


. GARRISON A45.I.a.