The Apple Must Be Bitten

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good in Good dj. 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [solid copy, some fading to cloth along top and bottom edges, light dust-soiling to top edge, old seller's price rather crudely obliterated on ffep, numerals "45" partially erased but still visible on front pastedown; jacket somewhat scuffed and edgeworn, shallow chipping at top of spine and bottom edge of rear panel, old tape repair to bottom rear hinge, internal tape-reinforcement across top of spine]. "Vivid, fast-moving novel of a modern marriage. The conflict between Maggie and Ned Harvey is rooted in the basic resentment of one sex toward the other." .