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1931 · rif. 66433 — New York: William Morrow & co 1931. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Part of DJ pasted inside front cover. Bookplate of John Hayes Knowles on fep!. x 306 p. front. port. 21 cm. O. Preface by Sir Bernard Pares. Sophie Gotcharsky was the step-daughter of Dr. harold Williams. She worked on the Russian front as a Red Cross nurse. From Wikipedia: Pier Scott-Maxwell 14 September 1883-6 March 1979 was a playwright author and psychologist. Florida Pier was born in Orange Park Florida and educated at home until the age of ten. She grew up in Pittsburgh then moved to New York at age 15 to become an actress. In 1910 she married John Scott Maxwell and moved to her husband's native Scotland where she worked for women's suffrage and as a playwright. The couple divorced in 1929 and she moved to London. In 1933 she studied Jungian psychology under Carl Jung and practised as an analytical psychologist in both England and Scotland. She died in Exeter England. Her most famous book is The Measure of My Days 1968. William Morrow & co hardcover