The Gilded Rose (in original vintage dust jacket)
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1925. Reissue. Hardcover. Hardcover in red cloth lettered in gilt. Hardcover. A tight, fine example. In the charming color illustrated dust jacket designed by Ellen Edwards featuring the elegantly green-gowned Jazz Age heroine, very good lightly toned panels and darker toning to the spine, chip to the head of the spine and a bit at the top edge. Early reissue, Pretty Rosilyn Page, the overworked drudge of a marshland inn, suddenly and unexpectedly heiress to an incredible fortune. She marries a fashionable but impoverished young bachelor she's adored romantically ever since she can remember but on her wedding day comes into the tragic knowledge that he is only marrying her for her wealth and is actually in love with another woman. "A delightful tale of a charming modern Cinderella..." Quite uncommon in the lovely dust jacket. Fine / very good. Item #E33334
Price: $47.50