New York: William Morrow and Company, 1937. First American Edition. Hardcover [12mo]. Blue cloth with pasted-on yellow title panel to spine. Light yellow endpapers. 255 pp. Good, with some fray to edges, staining and rubbing to boards, a rolled and sunned spine. Internally clean with leaves mildly age-toned and a few dog-eared corners.. First American Edition of the debut novel from innovative modernist writer Stevie Smith. Constructed as the scattered musings and recollections of a secretary, the novel deals with the protagonist's difficult personal reckonings, both in love and in the anti-semitic indoctrinations of Western Europeans at the time.

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Bookseller: Better Read Than Dead (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1330
Title: Novel on Yellow Paper
Author: Stevie Smith
Format/Binding: Hardcover [12mo]. Blue cloth with pasted-on yellow title panel to spine. Light yellow endpapers. 255 pp
Book Condition: Used - Good, with some fray to edges, staining and rubbing to boards, a rolled and sunned spine. Internally clean with leaves mildly ag
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow and Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1937

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