NATHAN, Robert. The Orchid
NATHAN, Robert. The Orchid. London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot. 1932. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the attractive dust jacket designed by Barbara Heath, who also provides the illustrations within. A very good copy, the cloth a little bumped around the board edges, the binding tight and gently rolled, but the contents clean and fine. The dust jacket unclipped (6s net) and complete, the extremities a little nicked and chipped around spine head and tail. Some overall toning, but uncommon in the jacket.
A Prohibition-era moral entertainment about a young actress whose affair with a steel magnate leads her to question her life and career. The novel comes just before Nathan's breakthrough novel, One More Spring. Several novels were adapted to the screen--this one wasn't. The UK edition a little less common than the US.
NATHAN, Robert. The Orchid. London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot. 1932. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the attractive dust jacket designed by Barbara Heath, who also provides the illustrations within. A very good copy, the cloth a little bumped around the board edges, the binding tight and gently rolled, but the contents clean and fine. The dust jacket unclipped (6s net) and complete, the extremities a little nicked and chipped around spine head and tail. Some overall toning, but uncommon in the jacket.
A Prohibition-era moral entertainment about a young actress whose affair with a steel magnate leads her to question her life and career. The novel comes just before Nathan's breakthrough novel, One More Spring. Several novels were adapted to the screen--this one wasn't. The UK edition a little less common than the US.
NATHAN, Robert. The Orchid. London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot. 1932. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the attractive dust jacket designed by Barbara Heath, who also provides the illustrations within. A very good copy, the cloth a little bumped around the board edges, the binding tight and gently rolled, but the contents clean and fine. The dust jacket unclipped (6s net) and complete, the extremities a little nicked and chipped around spine head and tail. Some overall toning, but uncommon in the jacket.
A Prohibition-era moral entertainment about a young actress whose affair with a steel magnate leads her to question her life and career. The novel comes just before Nathan's breakthrough novel, One More Spring. Several novels were adapted to the screen--this one wasn't. The UK edition a little less common than the US.