Female, Donald Henderson Clarke, 1st Ed., 1933, VG, w/DJ.

Clarke, Donald Henderson. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1933. 

English, First Edition, Very Good, 12mo, 7 3/4" x 5 1/2", [8] 310 pp.

Blue cloth over board, gilt lettering to front panel and spine, deckled fore-edge, cocking to spine, minor toning, some foxing to top edge and spine, light interior soiling, pigment transfer in-verso to front pastedown, otherwise, tightly, clean, and intact. Good white pictorial dust jacket, featuring a color illustration of a women and black-and-white images of other Vanguard novels, black lettering to front and back panels, spine, and interior flaps. Small chips along head, tail, and top front tip, some wear to edges, minor toning and foxing, pencil writing to front panel, otherwise, clean and intact, now in mylar. [8] 310 pp. Includes full-color illustration (same as dust jacket) as front endpaper and XXIII (23) fast-paced chapters following Margy Kane through her move to Park Avenue and romance, to murder charges and heartbreak. American author of semi-hard-boiled and romance novels, Donald Henderson Clarke had this novel challenged by The New York Society for Suppression of Vice and then ruled "obscene" by the courts, as his writing was considered risqué for the time.