First edition of Jane Bowles's only novel, one of the great masterpieces of the twentieth century.
Near fine in very good plus jacket.
Price: $1,000.00
"God's watching you now and he has no sympathy for you yet."
John Waters, describing this novel as well as anyone ever has, wrote: "Once I read it, I felt insanely grateful to have gone beyond the door of literate lunacy into a world of complete obliviousness to emotional reality. I've never come back. Two Serious Ladies made a real reader out of me, and if you give it a chance, it will do the same for you." Furthermore: "For years and years I wanted to own the first edition of this hardback and I finally got it. Sometimes when I want to feel smarter, I sneak up on this volume on my bookshelf and kiss it." Follow his example.
Read more: Waters, Role Models; Dillon, A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles."
First printing. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. 7.5'' x 5.5''. Original red-stamped tan cloth. Red topstain. In original unclipped ($2.50) pink pictorial dust jacket. 271, [3] pages. Light edgewear to boards, slight spine lean. Light scuffing and soil to jacket, with edge creasing and a few small closed tears.
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