Gates, H L (Henry Leyford); Vivian; New York: Barse & Hopkins 1927. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. 315 pages. Hardcover.
American Literature - 20th Century Romance Novel Jazz Age - Fiction
Good+/Good. Toned with random foxing, spine tail rub, edge foxing, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket edgeworn with edge tears and creasing, rubbed, spine sun, wear. Solid hardcover.
"If you're very old fashioned and very prim and don't believe in this thing of rolling stockings until the knees are bare and showing a garter just below the roll you'll be terribly shocked by VIVIAN and maybe you'd better not read about her." - Front flap.
"The author has spun thirty-five of the trippingest chapters ever recorded in a jazzy age, of one of the modernest creatures of this world who are fully capable to take care of themselves. The austere, aristocratic Foster family, that sets the highest standards in the uppermost circles of the metropolis, are forced to admit at the end of the game that a mere stenographer has beat them off the map - a girl of whom her father said she was made of devil's dust and headed straight for the infernal regions." - Important Books Reviewed, The Lariat, March 1927, page 126. Hard-to-find Gates jazz age novel, uncommon in dust jacket.

Good+/Good. Toned with random foxing, spine tail rub, edge foxing, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket edgeworn with edge tears and creasing, rubbed, spine sun, wear. Solid hardcover.

7.75 x 5.25 x 1.5 in

0.94 lb