Lean Twilight

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Poor dj. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear only to book, very slight bump to top front corner; the jacket has several tears, paper loss at corners and spine ends, heavy age-toning, and a large chunk missing from the rear panel]. Novel about a beautiful woman, blurbed as "a tragedy particularly common among women and those of exceptional qualities, which comes from an evasion of reality that causes a suppression of the true self." The book follows the heroine as she traipses all over the world -- Chicago, the French Riviera, "all over Europe," and finally back to the U.S. -- after the terrible shock of discovering that her great first love, "a young architect recuperating from an illness," is (oops) already married. . (Inventory #: 29565)