THE DUCHESS IN PURSUIT. London: Mills & Boon, Limited, [1917]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-320 [321-328: ads], original purple cloth, spine panel stamped in black, publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. Collects a short novel and five short stories, some criminous. Wylie lived a colorful life, born in Australia, growing up in England (without a mother or much supervision, teaching herself from her father's library), traveling freely in Europe -- as a child! -- studying in Belgium and Germany, and finally moving to America after World War I. She began writing, and publishing, stories when she was a teenager, and became a militant suffragette in the 1910s. Hubin (1994), p. 882. Top edge of text block dusty, else a clean, tight, very good copy. (#116564).
Price: $100.00
"Published 1917" on copyright page.