First edition in book form, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with black titles to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the spine tips. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the good (at best) rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has several closed tears and large chips at the base of the spine and upper left corner of the front panel. Correctly priced 7/6 net to the spine. An international bestseller on publication (350,000 copies sold in its first ten months), the first edition is rare in dustwrapper.
Filmed twice, first in 1923 directed by Harry Millarde and starring Percy Marmont and Ann Forrest, and again in 1947 directed by Victor Saville and starring Walter Pidgeon, Deborah Kerr and Angela Lansbury.
Stock code: 21545
£175