WE HAPPY FEW by Howe, helen - 1946 5th

New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1946). First Edition. Hardcover. [small stain on fore-edge, otherwise a nice clean book with only minimal shelfwear; jacket has small tears at most corners, about 1/2" paper loss at top of spine (slightly affecting "W" in title), shallow chipping along top edge of rear panel, vertical crease in front flap]. "You are invited to meet Dorothea -- a lovely young bud on an old New England family tree. It is a compliment to be invited. For Dorothea surrounds herself only with interesting, amusing people. She is humbly grateful that the family into which she was born, and the Harvard faculty circle in which she moves, comprise the most cultivated people in the world." She sounds perfectly insufferable, if you ask me, and apparently the author thinks so, too, as the blurb goes on to also invite the reader "to witness the awakening of Dorothea [who] like the princess in the fairy tale, [is] a sleeping… Read More

simon & schuster, 1946 5th. very good - fine hardcover very good - fine jacket edge bumping

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo. Fourth Printing 1946. Hardcover with dustjacket. Cover clean with minor shelfwear. Interior clean, binding tight. Jacket gently rubbed.Your purchase benefits literacy and summer reading programs in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio. We ship every business day. All books ship in cardboard bookfolds with delivery confirmation. Sets or unusually heavy items ship in a box.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. Reprint 4th Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 345 pp. Fourth printing. Previous owner name, and presentation inscription, on front free endpaper; the cover is very slightly tanned at the edges. The jacket is chipped at the head and foot of the spine, and at the corners of the flap folds.