Nov 20, 2012 - Sale 2295

Sale 2295 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
MARQUAND, JOHN P. The Late George Apley. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and rules (spine gilt rubbed); dust jacket, price-clipped, chipping to somewhat brittle upper corners of back panel, chips to top of spine panel with tape repair on recto over horizontal tear; top edges red; vertical lines scattered throughout internally as is usually encountered due to printing flaw in the first edition. Boston: Little, Brown, 1937

Additional Details

signed first edition with "Lovely Pearl" instead of "Pretty Pearl" on line 1 of page 19. The 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winner.