Author: ATHERTON, GERTRUDE
Title: The White Morning a Novel of the Power of the German Women in Wartime
Description: New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1918. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition and is missing the accompanying dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. There is some toning / darkening between pages 8 and 9 at the spine joint. There is a previous owner's inked name and date on the front endpaper. The frontispiece and front cover illustration are from a photograph by Arnold Genthe. "Countess Gisela Niebuhr sat in the long dusk of Munich staring over at the beautiful park that in happier days had been famous in the world as the Englischer Garten, and deliberately recalled on what might be the last night of her life the successive causes that had led to her profound dissatisfaction with her country as a woman." "Atherton's first publication was "The Randolphs of Redwood: A Romance", serialized in The Argonaut in March 1882 under the pseudonym Asmodeus. When she revealed to her family that she was the author, it caused her to be ostracized. In 1888, she left for New York, leaving Muriel with her grandmother. She traveled to London, and eventually returned to California. Atherton's first novel, What Dreams May Come, was published in 1888 under the pseudonym Frank Lin.". Very Good+ .
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Title: The White Morning a Novel of the Power of the German Women in Wartime
Description: New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1918. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition and is missing the accompanying dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. There is some toning / darkening between pages 8 and 9 at the spine joint. There is a previous owner's inked name and date on the front endpaper. The frontispiece and front cover illustration are from a photograph by Arnold Genthe. "Countess Gisela Niebuhr sat in the long dusk of Munich staring over at the beautiful park that in happier days had been famous in the world as the Englischer Garten, and deliberately recalled on what might be the last night of her life the successive causes that had led to her profound dissatisfaction with her country as a woman." "Atherton's first publication was "The Randolphs of Redwood: A Romance", serialized in The Argonaut in March 1882 under the pseudonym Asmodeus. When she revealed to her family that she was the author, it caused her to be ostracized. In 1888, she left for New York, leaving Muriel with her grandmother. She traveled to London, and eventually returned to California. Atherton's first novel, What Dreams May Come, was published in 1888 under the pseudonym Frank Lin.". Very Good+ .
Keywords: Modern Fiction First Editions Gertrude Atherton War Fiction World War I Arnold Genthe Modern Fiction Firsts
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 35616
- Book number: 35616
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