Find the Woman

  • Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1911
By BURGESS, Gelett
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1911. First Edition. First printing. Crown octavo (19cm). Publisher's ribbed brown cloth, titles blocked in white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 342pp; frontispiece and four inserted leaves of plates after illustrations by Hanson Booth. Ink initials to front endpaper, else tight, straight and Near Fine in the uncommon dustwrapper, rubbed and faded with a few closed tears with $1.25 price on spine panel; worn, but complete and Good.

A romantic fantasy, set in a single night in New York City. Reviewed in Publisher's Weekly for 11/18/1911, where the novel is described as "...a sort of Arabian nights tale involving the extraordinary adventures of a young man who has never known who he really is...[but] during the strange happenings of one night in New York extending from Wall Street to Harlem discovers his own identity, wins the girl, and comes into a fortune." We have noted a variant dustwrapper with a pictorial design, without known priority, though we do note that the price advertised on the spine of our jacket ($1.25) corresponds to the price noted in the book's announcement in PW.

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