Author: GEORGE, W. L.
Title: A Bed of Roses (Modern Library #75. 1)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Boni & Liveright, Inc, [c.1921]. Flexible Leatherette. A Modern Library reprint edition of the first novel by Italy's Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938). The author was a poet, journalist and military leader. Text of the novel rendered into English by Georgina Harding, poetic verses translated by Arthur Symons. With an introduction by Ernest Boyd. --- In Toledano spine #3 / green leatherette ("Croftleather") limp boards / gilt spine titling & horizontal bars / gilt Modern Library-B&L writer-at-desk device to cover / Brodzky illustrated M-L endpapers / lacks the dust jacket. Likely published c.1925 (the 1925 date which appears in volume makes this a likely first Modern Library edition). ML #98.1. --- A Good-only copy, with dampstains to first 100 or so leaves, age-toning to leaves and creases to covers, otherwise a tightly-bound, sound copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xiii, 321, (11, ads) pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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