Lovely Journey

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1936). First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, slight fading to cloth at edges of covers, one-time owner's small rubber-stamped name on front endpaper; the jacket has some minor wear along the top and bottom edges, and about 3/16" paper loss at the top of the spine]. Novel, set in a small town along the Hudson River, about a woman named Elizabeth, "one of a family of girls, all of whom are ambitious. Her own desires to get a good education and travel are set aside, in order to help the family finances. She obtains a position in a girls' school, then loses it under a cloud -- this cloud being the dubious side of a love affair with an irresponsible chap named Rufus." She marries the guy, but "their attempt at marital happiness [leads] only to disaster." .