There and Back

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good- dj. (c.1933). First American Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [nice clean copy with minor shelfwear only; jacket is edgeworn, with tiny chips at bottom corners of front panel, a number of short tears at corners and edges, spine moderately faded but still readable, tiny label with author's name affixed to lower spine]. (line drawings) A novel that comes with a warning: "Men are herewith warned, and women advised, that this is a book for women. Women alone will appreciate it, understand it, love it. [It] is just a joyous, light-hearted account of the holiday trip taken by two young married women both intelligent yet frivolous. Having no men along, they could be wholly feminine in their observations and confidences and renew without reticence the comparing of notes begun years before when they were girls in school together. If you nurse a secret longing -- and who of us does not? -- to 'get away from it all' for a while, this book was written for you." Published the previous year in England by J.M. Dent & Sons. .