Faint Perfume, Zona Gale, 1923, HC, VG.

Gale, Zona. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1923.

English, Very Good, HC, 12mo, 7 3/4" x 5", 6 + [2] 218 pp.

Light blue cloth over board, stamped gilt lettering to front panel and spine, spine lightly cocked, top tips bumped, light wear to tips and tail, otherwise, clean, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. Very Good age-toned and hand-soiled paper dust jacket, black hand-written lettering to front cover, faded black lettering to back and spine, bump to head, 1/4" closed tear to back panel, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. 6 + [2] 218 pp. Includes 3 parts: Part I. Leda: Chapters I-V; Part II. Barnaby: Chapters V-VII; Part III. Faint Perfume: Chapters VIII-XII. Zona Gale (1874 – 1938) a novelist, short story writer and playwright, as well as a suffragist and activist, also became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921. From the dust jacket: "There is Mama Crumb, Tweet Crumb, Orrin Crumb, Pearl Crumb, Grandfather Crumb, Richmiel Powers who was a Crumb. You are initiated into their very midst in Zona Gale's novel, and with all the deft insight into human nature and speech and action that brightened the pages of 'Miss Lulu Bett'...It is the story of the love that comes to Leda Perrin that Zona Gale tells."