After Five O'Clock

New York/London: The Century Co.. Fair. (c.1932). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (no dust jacket) [reading copy only; an ex-rental library book, stamped as such on all endpapers, with heavy wear to bottom edge (boards exposed), front hinge cracked, moderate soiling to page edges]. Novel about a successful New York businesswoman, owner of her own interior decoration firm. "There was more to this business than just picking out nice lamp-shades, and matching the draperies to the rug. Sometimes she wished she had married young and gone to California to live. Sometimes she wished she had picked out a nice easy job like scrubbing floors." .