THE ORCHID
First edition of this amusing snapshot of the tangled lives of entertainers in their twilight years, a satire with heart.
Very good plus in very good jacket.
Price: $100.00
First edition of this amusing snapshot of the tangled lives of entertainers in their twilight years, a satire with heart.
Very good plus in very good jacket.
Price: $100.00
"I have read THE ORCHID, Nathan's first book in two years. Now God's in his heaven again and everything is quite alright with the world." – The Brooklyn Citizen
"Nathan smiles at the comedy and breaks your heart with it," observes Michael March in THE BROOKLYN CITIZEN (5). Appropriately, a species of orchid was named after Robert Nathan in 2004 (Paphiopedilum Robert Nathan Boersma).
Read more: Michael March, "Page After Page," The Brooklyn Citizen 22 March 1931.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1931). 7.5'' x 5''. Original purple cloth lettered in gilt. In original unclipped ($2.00) blue and pink pictorial dust jacket with art by L. Trevisan. 199, [1] pages. Gilt lettering somewhat tarnished. Jacket with fading to spine, shallow chipping at spine edges, a bit of light soiling and edgewear.
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