No Stork at Nine

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good+. 1938. 1st Edition (A) [see notes]. Softcover. (pictorial wrappers, with "jacket" flaps) [modest external wear, spine slightly turned]. The author's uncommon debut novel, about a newly- (and hastily-) married New York businessman, who finds himself driven to distraction by his obsession with his "lovely and enigmatic" wife's possible previous lover (or was he?), referred to only as "The Count" (but who apparently might not have been a "real" Count at all). Bound in pictorial wraps, with all the indicators of a Scribner's first edition, although this may actually be an advance copy of some sort. The author scored a big success (and a nice movie sale) a few years later with "Letter to Five Wives." .