Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. First Edition. Second printing, with title page in orange and black, but "something about Eve" on dedication page. Octavo (20cm). Original red cloth, stamped in yellow, light grey topstain, in pictorial dust jacket; orange and white patterned endpapers; [x],351pp. Sound, lightly cocked with crease to spine, lightly rubbed, foxing to edges of textblock not affecting pages: Good or better. Jacket corners trimmed but price still visible ($2.50), spine sunned, chips at head, tail, and corners, a few short tears, some neatly repaired with tape to verso: Good or better. A critically-favored novel by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Virginia author. KELLY pp. 72-3.

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Bookseller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 56853
Title: They Stooped to Folly
Author: GLASGOW, Ellen
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company
Place of Publication: Garden City
Date Published: 1929
Bookseller catalogs: Modern Fiction; Women; The South;

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