Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1935. First Trade Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. First trade edition, now augmented by four new stories, of a limited signed edition of 600 copies of this title issued in 1930. Inscribed on front flyleaf by Porter to Thomas Quinn Curtis, then a young American film and drama critic - he would go on to enjoy a long career in Paris writing for the Herald Tribune. 8vo, oatmeal cloth. Light damp mark affects lower portion of front fly and the bottom of the book, faintly visible in the lower margin of some pages, otherwise a nice copy in a near-fine jacket with a few minor nicks and unclipped price. A lovely copy despite noted flaws.

Price: $200.00 save 15% $170.00