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Newman, Frances. The Hard-Boiled Virgin. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1926.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. 285 pages. Yellow and orange printed paper covered boards. Black cloth spine with title. Front hinge is cracked and the front cover is attached but loose. 1926 date on title page and copyright page. Light wear to the hardcover. Light toning to the foredge.
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
Newman, Frances. The Hard-Boiled Virgin. BONI & LIVERIGHT, NY, 1926.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: General wear: bumped, chipped corner; bookplate, previous owner name and info, foxing, pages 265-REPs are ragged from having been part of an uncut section of uncut section of textblock, text is clear and of reasonably large print DATE PUBLISHED: 1926 EDITION: 285
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Newman, Frances. The Hard-Boiled Virgin. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1926.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 12mo. 285 pages. Yellow and orange printed paper covered boards. Black cloth spine with title. Front hinge is cracked and the front cover is attached but loose.
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second printing. Spine lettering worn, corners worn, a good or better copy lacking the dustwrapper. Laid in is an Autograph Letter Signed ("Lewy") written from the respected translator and raconteur Lewis Galantie?re to Marian Seldes, a Tony Award-winning actress and the daughter of expatriate writer Gilbert Seldes. The letter, written in 1975, warmly recalls Gilbert Seldes and gives a brief reminiscence by Galantie?re of his meeting Frances Newman in Paris in the 1920s: "Frances Newman: Her name takes me back to 1921 when she appeared in Paris with a note of introduction from one James Branch Cabell. I'm pretty sure she was a fellow Virginian: a maiden look[ed] 10 or 15 years older than me who never - while she was in Paris - deigned to see me again. She had a quick wit, I'm sure; and mine to[ok] a bit of time to understand what she would want to know of Paris." Later in the letter: "Newman (again) I never read her and I couldn't abide her. She was not edible. Elle etait (a mon gout) tout simplement une vieille fille. [translates as "She was (to my taste) simply an old maid."]. If I went on, I would say things I have no grounds for saying, no right to say. I think she was a bit jealous of men. Mind, that was more than 50 years ago!" Letter is folded as mailed else fine in origjnal envelope. Interesting, if jaundiced view of Newman.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Newman, Frances. The Hard-Boiled Virgin. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1926.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.50), lightly rubbed and soiled, faded a shade at the spine. Quarter black cloth with patterned paper on the boards. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, clean internally. Newman's first full-length novel, "the story of a woman, unconventional in an unconventional manner, a woman intimate with the mysteries of the past, exotic, and yet thrillingly human."
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Newman, Frances. The Hard-Boiled Virgin. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926, 1926.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition. Signed by Author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. edges scuffed
Seller: Collectorsemall, Rialto, CA, U.S.A.
NEWMAN, Frances. The Hard-Boiled Virgin. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1926.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Author's scarce first novel. Newman's modernist novels stunned her native Atlanta with their satire of southern culture and were banned in Boston for their allusions to sexuality. Almost Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, modest soiling to panels, shallow loss to top spine end, nicked at flap corners and lower spine end.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.