My Sister Eileen [Promotional Pamphlet Laid in]

  • New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938
By Ruth McKenney
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth with printed paper paste-ons to upper cover and spine, in decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); xiii,[1],226pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, spine panel rather sunned, endpapers unevenly toned, else a Very Good, straight and sound copy. With laid in promotional pamphlet "For Booksellers" reprinting the chapter "Guinea Pig."

The popular collection of comic essays first published in The New Yorker recounting the zany adventures of sisters Ruth and Eileen McKenney growing up in Ohio. The collection inspired a play, a radio play, a musical, two motion pictures, and a television series. Uncommon in the trade.

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