Precarious the lot of the author who elects to show his public what it does not know, but doubly exposed he who in the indiscreet exploration of customs and manners publishes what the public knows but is unwilling to confess! In the first place incredulity tempers censure, in the second resentment is fanned by the necessity of self-recognition. For the public is like the defendant in matrimony, amused and tolerant when unconvinced of the justice of a complaint, but fiercely aroused when defending its errors. In the present ...
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Precarious the lot of the author who elects to show his public what it does not know, but doubly exposed he who in the indiscreet exploration of customs and manners publishes what the public knows but is unwilling to confess! In the first place incredulity tempers censure, in the second resentment is fanned by the necessity of self-recognition. For the public is like the defendant in matrimony, amused and tolerant when unconvinced of the justice of a complaint, but fiercely aroused when defending its errors. In the present novel I am quite aware that where criticism is most risked is at the hands of those entrenched moralists who, while admitting certain truths as fit subjects for conversation, aggressively resent the same when such truths are published. Many such will believe that in the following depiction of a curious and new type of modern young women, product of changing social forces, profoundly significant of present unrest and prophetic of stranger developments to come, the author, in depicting simply what does exist, is holding a brief for what should exist.
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Shinn, Everett. Fair. No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover edges and corners are lightly rubbed. Front hinge is cracked. Binding is tight. 529pp.
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Very Good. First edition. Decorative green cloth blind and gilt-stamped. Owner's name on front endpapers, small ink spot on front board, light rubbing to the corners of the spine, a very good copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. Novel about a flapper.
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1914 Johnson, Owen THE SALAMANDER Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, c1914 529pp illustrated Everett Shinn 8vo Dark green stamped in gold, blind-stamped patterned front cover Contemporary previous owner's signature on first page, minimal shelf-rubbing else fine bright hardcover.