Livingstones
New York: John Day, 1933. Hardcover. 653p., very good first US edition (first published by Hogarth Press); hardcover bound in floral pattern cloth boards with green cloth spine, black spine titles in a good, unclipped dust jacket with wraparound illustration and wraparound banner of recommendation by the Book of the Month Club & the British Book Society. Mild edgewear, tears and chips at head and tail of the dustjacket's spine, toning.
Debut novel by the interior decorator who wanted to be a journalist but became the author of three novels and several biographies on Tolstoy, John Ruskin and Marcel Proust. He only completed three novels before dying of TB in 1944.
Cat.No: 335244
Price: $450.00