John Phillips Marquand

The Unspeakable Gentleman

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. First edition. Cloth. The American first edition of the first novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, J. P. Marquand. With a frontis by A. I. Keller. The dustwrapper is not present. John Phillips Marquand, 1893 – 1960, was a 20th-century American writer. He achieved popular success and critical respect for his satirical novels, winning a Pulitzer Prize for The Late George Apley in 1938. In the original cloth binding. Externally, some bumping, with fading to the spine, and a few marks. The rear joint is starting, with slight loss. Internally, firmly bound, lightly browned, with, as common, spotting to the endpapers. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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Book number: MOD1-C-1

Catalogue: Humour

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