first edition Hardcover
(c.1933) · New York
by Niles, Blair (pseud. for Mary Blair Rice)
New York: Liveright, Inc.. Near Fine. (c.1933). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [nice clean copy with no significant wear, slight abrasion to silver spine lettering, light age-toning to edges of text block]. Novel that takes place in a private asylum, "a drama of the mind and heart of a group of people, with a man and woman moving forward out of shadows into light." The basic plot concerns a young man who gets himself committed to a sanitarium as a joke on his "scheming mother and undesired fianceƩ," then finds himself stuck there through an unfortunate chain of circumstances -- but then finds himself attracted to another inmate, a lovely young woman suffering from amnesia. (Quotes are from the dust jacket on another copy of this book, NOT present on this copy.) . (Inventory #: 29407)