PARKER, Dorothy. Laments for the Living
PARKER, Dorothy. Laments for the Living. London: Longmans. 1930. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s quarter black cloth over red boards lettered in gilt to spine, in the patterned dust jacket. A very good copy overall, the cloth clean, the spine a trifle creased, the corners and tips very gently bumped, but the binding tight and square, the contents generally fine despite some light patchy toning to prelims and textblock edges. The dust jacket unclipped (6/- net), with several usually tiny chips to corners, tips and a few barely perceptible nicks.
An attractive example of ‘Dot’ Parker’s first short story collection—this first British edition decidedly scarcer than its US counterpart. The collection includes ‘Big Blonde’’, which won the O. Henry Prize, and reinforces her style of clinical wit (her epitaph reads: “Excuse my dust”) and incisive commentary on the United States and its people. Parker worked for Vanity Fair in the 1910s and 20s and was a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Together with her husband, Alan Campbell, she is credited for several Hollywood screenplays, including the much-remade A Star is Born (1937). Scarce.
PARKER, Dorothy. Laments for the Living. London: Longmans. 1930. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s quarter black cloth over red boards lettered in gilt to spine, in the patterned dust jacket. A very good copy overall, the cloth clean, the spine a trifle creased, the corners and tips very gently bumped, but the binding tight and square, the contents generally fine despite some light patchy toning to prelims and textblock edges. The dust jacket unclipped (6/- net), with several usually tiny chips to corners, tips and a few barely perceptible nicks.
An attractive example of ‘Dot’ Parker’s first short story collection—this first British edition decidedly scarcer than its US counterpart. The collection includes ‘Big Blonde’’, which won the O. Henry Prize, and reinforces her style of clinical wit (her epitaph reads: “Excuse my dust”) and incisive commentary on the United States and its people. Parker worked for Vanity Fair in the 1910s and 20s and was a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Together with her husband, Alan Campbell, she is credited for several Hollywood screenplays, including the much-remade A Star is Born (1937). Scarce.
PARKER, Dorothy. Laments for the Living. London: Longmans. 1930. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s quarter black cloth over red boards lettered in gilt to spine, in the patterned dust jacket. A very good copy overall, the cloth clean, the spine a trifle creased, the corners and tips very gently bumped, but the binding tight and square, the contents generally fine despite some light patchy toning to prelims and textblock edges. The dust jacket unclipped (6/- net), with several usually tiny chips to corners, tips and a few barely perceptible nicks.
An attractive example of ‘Dot’ Parker’s first short story collection—this first British edition decidedly scarcer than its US counterpart. The collection includes ‘Big Blonde’’, which won the O. Henry Prize, and reinforces her style of clinical wit (her epitaph reads: “Excuse my dust”) and incisive commentary on the United States and its people. Parker worked for Vanity Fair in the 1910s and 20s and was a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Together with her husband, Alan Campbell, she is credited for several Hollywood screenplays, including the much-remade A Star is Born (1937). Scarce.