Romance

1930 · réf. 002511 O'Neiil — Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo brown cloth small central perforation of top panel of dj which scraped the top cover of the book; dj extremities worn a bit. Scarce. New England fiction. "A book for artists poets and all who seek in fiction 'life made luminous and iridescent.'" When was the last time you read an endorsement like that Black-&-white chapter decorations but her monochrome portraits of the principle characters as frontispieces with illustrated endpapers. O'Neill also designed the dust jacket which repeats Helga's portrait. :She built a successful career as a magazine and book illustrator and at a young age became the best-known and highest-paid female commercial illustrator in the United States. She also wrote novels and poetry. O’Neill earned a fortune and international fame by creating the Kewpie the most widely known cartoon character until Mickey Mouse - Historic Missourians." Doubleday, Doran, hardcover