The Knave of Hearts

New York, 1925. Pictorial boards. Very Good +. Maxfield Parrish. A solid, very serviceable copy of the 1925 1st edition, in its much preferred dark hardback, with the wonderful pasted-on image ("The Two Chefs") to the front panel. Crisp, bright and VG+, with very light rubbing and wear along the edges of "The Two Chefs" and pronounced scuffing at the rear panel, Internally very sharp, with no writing or markings to speak of -- only Maxfield Parrish's rich, lavish full-page color plates (widely considered the best ever assembled in a book devoted to his work). Folio, lacking both the scarce unprinted glassine dustjacket and the even scarcer publisher's printed box. Text by Louise Saunders, who, among other things, was the wife of the formidable Maxwell Perkins, editor, mentor and confidante to Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Ring Lardner and others.