Love Conquers All

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1922. Very Good +/Good -. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1922. First Edition. Octavo (19 cm); 310pp. 17 plates, including frontis, collated complete. Boards full bound in light blue cloth with dark blue and orange pictorial cover and stamping, wrapped in publisher's cream pictorial dust jacket. Jacket generally toned, lightly scuffed, and rubbed at margins with large creased tear to front panel at right side, creases to flaps, and cleanly torn spine and back panel at left side with minor loss to back panel top margin (the "v" in love is no more). Previous owner tape to spine and some to verso of front flap joint but back panel and flap separated. Flap edges roughly torn but writing on both remain legible. Board corners and spine ends gently bumped and worn with minor dust soiling and scuffs. Pages clean with mild toning to edges. Illustrations clean and bright. A Very Good or better copy in a Good only but scarce jacket of the author's second collection of essays of humor and mayhem.