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Fair. No Jacket. Signed by Previous Owner. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Discarded library copy with stamps, markings, library binding and pocket removed. By arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company. Text very good.
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Good. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Very scarce 1931 First edition of this title. Tan cloth hardcover boards with stamped white lettering and of a fawn in the lower right corner of the front cover. Illustrated end pages. Boards with moderate wear and soiling; end pages soiled with previous owner's signatures inside; pages dusty with soiling to the edges and light age toning. Olive Higgins Prouty (1882-1974) was an American novelist and poet, best known for her consideration of psychotherapy in her novels. White Fawn published in 1931 was the first title in her five books about the fictional Vale family belonging to the elite social world of Boston in the early 1900s. She is also known for her philanthropic works, and for her resulting association with the writer Sylvia Plath whom she encountered as a result of endowing a Smith College scholarship for "promising young writers" and for whom she supported financially.
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Clean and tight, foxed. Front binding is broken, bookplate, Former owner name, Cover corners and spine tips are soft. book is spotted especially on spine.
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Very Good-with no dust jacket; Light soiling/waterstaining on page edges, back cover. Intermittent waterstaining on some pages, mostly marginal. Spine canted. Name and numeral written in ink on FEP. Includes rare real photo promotional postcard of the author, taken by Ira L. Hills Studio, New York, including name, "author of 'White Fawn' (Houghton Mifflin Company) " affixed to half-title. Rare first edition. Beige boards with white lettering. Front cover clean. Olive Higgins Prouty was known for the use of psychology and psychoanalysis in her novels. This is the first novel in her five book series about the Vale family, two of which were made into motion pictures. Prouty was also an "angel" who supported Sylvia Plath personally and financially.; Real photo promotional postcard; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 390 pages.
