If You Can Wait --

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company. Very Good in Good dj. (c.1933). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [moderate wear to extremities, light soiling to page edges, one-time owner's pencilled name and city on ffep, vintage bookseller's label on rear pastedown (David Spencer Limited, Vancouver); jacket heavily edgeworn, a bit of paper loss at spine corners]. "A human drama of four generations of a single family, a sweeping panorama of eighty years of American life: the old South before the Civil War and the New York during the Civil War and until today in the life of a girl afire with ambition to be a great musician." The author was the wife and sometime collaborator of the prolific writer-poet Clement Wood. .