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Journey of Tapiola: Available Copies

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. Stated First Edition. Very Good/No Dustjacket. Georg Salter, Illustrator. Gray cloth boards with illustrated cover. Slight sunning to spine, very slight wear to top spine edge. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or bookplates. Clean decorated endpapers. 121 pgs. Front section of dustjacket only enclosed. 8vo. Fiction.

121 p.

In taupe-colored cloth boards darkened at spine and lightly soiled endpapers. The adventures of a yorkshire terrier loose in Manhattan. Binding crisp.

Stated first edition. No markings. $1.75 to inside flap of dust jacket, in a protective cover. Bookplate to early blank page and small address label to front free end paper. Many pieces missing from edges of dust jacket and along spine, in a protective cover.

First edition. Decorations by Georg Salter. Tiny bookseller ticket on rear pastedown, slight sunning on topstain and spine, near fine in a price-clipped, very good dust jacket with small chips and tears, a lightly sunned spine, and a few interior tape repairs.

Adventures of Tapiola, a Yorkshire terrier. A Gift Book with place for inscription on front pastedown (not filled in), and the front flap of the wrapper states 'This jacket can be used as a postal wrapper if reversed', but it was obviously not so utilised. Expanded condition report/photo on request.

Gray cloth with pictorial of New York City skyline and small dog on front and spine. Map of New York City on endpapers. Dust jacket with $1.75 price. Illustrations by Georg Salter. Mylar cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

NATHAN, Robert [121] pp. Alfred A Knopf 1938 First Edition 8 1/2" x 5 3/4" w/ decorations by Georg Salter *jacket panels separating*

Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Owner name on 2nd FEP. Open tearing at bottom of front/rear panels.

stated "FIRST EDITION" prive "$1.75" intact, postage paid reader reply card inside from 1938, notes in pencil on inside flap "10/31" & "6-" the 6 being the sales tax & the 10/31 being the arrival date in the bookstores in 1938, amazing bright pink endpapers, to the untrained eye this would appear to be a brand new book Author Bio: Nathan was born into a prominent New York Sephardic family. He was educated in the United States and Switzerland and attended Harvard University for several years beginning in 1912. It was there that he began writing short fiction and poetry. However, he never graduated, choosing instead to drop out and take a job at an advertising firm to support his family (he married while a junior at Harvard). It was while working in 1919 that he wrote his first novelthe semi-autobiographical work Peter Kindredwhich was a critical failure. But his luck soon changed during the 1920s, when he wrote seven more novels, including The Bishop's Wife, which was later made into a successful film starring Cary Grant, David Niven, and Loretta Young. During the 1930s, his success continued with more works, including fictional pieces and poetry. In 1940, he wrote his most successful book, Portrait of Jennie, about a Depression-era artist and the woman he is painting, who is slipping through time. Portrait of Jennie is considered a modern masterpiece of fantasy fiction and was made into a film, starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten. In January 1956 the author wrote, as well as narrated, an episode of the CBS Radio Workshop, called "A Pride of Carrots or Venus Well-Served." Nathan's seventh wife was the British actress Anna Lee, to whom he was married from 1970 until his death. He came from a talented family the activist Maud Nathan and author Annie Nathan Meyer were his aunts, and the poet Emma Lazarus and Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo his cousins.