Theophilus North by Wilder, Thorton - 1973

Harper & Row. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0060146362 . Book Club Edition. 372 pages, black cloth w/gilt title block, blue end pages, Jacket design my Miriam Woods, lightly worn edges and corner tips, in Mylar cover. A very nice copy. This is the authors last novel (he died in '75) published during his lifetime, this novel is part autobiographical and part the imagined adventure of his twin brother who died at birth. Setting out to see the world in the summer of 1926, Theophilus North gets as far as Newport, Rhode Island, before his car breaks down. To support himself, Theophilus takes jobs in the elegant mansions along Ocean Drive, just as Wilder himself did in the same decade. Soon the young man finds himself playing the roles of tutor, spy, confidant, lover, friend, and enemy as he becomes entangled in the intrigues of both upstairs and downstairs in a glittering society dominated by leisure. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .