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First Edition (SD, NAP; William Morrow & Co.= NAP up to 1974). As mentioned, this is the Only first edition for sale on the Internet. In fact, it's the only book of any edition published by William Morrow (American) for sale on the Internet. The book was also published in England a few years later. This was the author's second novel. It was made into a movie titled 'Bought' which was released in 1931 by Warner Brothers and directed by Archie Mayo. The movie starred Constance Bennett and featured Ben Lyon, Richard Bennett and Dorothy Peterson. Bennett was paid 'an all-time high salary of $30,000 a week for her work.' It was the only movie that she ever made with her father, Richard Bennett. The movie has its own Wikipedia page. Harriet Henry was married to Count Nils de Steuch of Sweden and so was formally known as Countess Harriet Henry de Steuch. Beside being a novelist she was on the staff of Vogue magazine. As it heads for its 100th birthday, this book is in very good condition. You can see the covers in the photos. They are very clean. The gilt lettering and design on the front is nicely bright and free of wear. The lettering and design on the spine is also free of wear. The lettering there is yellow as opposed to the green on the front. It's possible that the sun faded it from green to yellow, as the front and rear cover are black and the spine is a dark brown. There is only minor wear at the spine ends, a few spots of rubbing and one tiny tear at the bottom one. All six cover edges look very good. On the two bottom ones there's a tiny bit of very superficial rubbing or perhaps color fading. The corners have only a tiny bit of superficial rubbing. The top page edge had a topstain that's somewhat faded now. No soiling. The middle and bottom page edges are deckled or rough-cut. They both look very good. The book has a slight to moderate forward lean, but is solidly bound from cover to cover. I found only one instance of a very thin space at the juncture between two facing pages, both pages solidly bound from top to bottom. Both covers are nicely tight, no issues at the junctures of either. The inside covers and end papers form a green and white illustrated design of jackdaws in flight-- or possibly strutting. They are all very clean and in very nice condition with just a little bit of toning off of their edges. The pages in the book are also very clean. Scrolling through, I found only one instance of a light stain off the bottom edge of two facing pages. There's no foxing. The pages are toned, but uniformly. There's little to no creasing. No markings. No attachments. No writing. 'From a New York Times review: 'Harriet Henry is taking the theme of her latest novel from Gilbert and Sullivan (Things are never what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream, Highlows pass as patent leathers, Jackdaws strut in peacocks' feathers, Very true, so they do'). And it must be confessed that the curious title which she has drawn from the verse is thoroughly apposite. Stephany Dale, at the age of 18, lived with her widowed mother in a cheap apartment, past whose windows the elevated trains perpetually thundered. Mrs. Dale maintained their home only by unremitting toil over her needle, but Stephany, regarding the cracked enamel and the faded wallpaper, felt herself entitled to better things. Yet she could not quite imagine herself taking dictation at $20 a week. She demanded beauty and luxury and excitement-- and entrée into the coveted world of dinner jackets and genealogies, of debutantes and orchids, a world with which she was acquainted only through reading but represented to her everything really desirable.' The Times reviewer goes on to praise the book's 'really excellent plot', 'dramatic suspense', and 'sustained narrative interest that Jackdaws Strut undeniably contains.' He goes on to state that all of these positives 'compensate the reader rather well for the incredibility inherent in the characterization of Stephany Dale.'. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 005174
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