Sealed Lips

Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book, a good sound copy with only minor shelfwear, vintage price sticker (from noted San Francisco department store, The White House) on rear pastedown; the jacket has tiny tears and bits of paper loss at most corners]. "In this strangely compelling psychological novel, Marcel Dupont writes the study of a [French] cavalry officer whose loyalty is divided between the army which is his dearest interest in life, and the wife and children whose needs his small pay cannot meet." Compelling his loyalty to the army is the imminent threat of a communist-inspired revolution. (The book seems to be set during the time of the Paris Commune, i.e. 1871, although this is not explicitly stated.) .