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Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Collins, Sydney, 1948. 384 pp, previous owner's name on front end-paper, pages browned, front d/j flap almost detached, minor losses to d/j edges, else very good copy in good, illustrated d/j.. First Australian edition.

UsedAcceptable. Book has some staining toward the inner bottom corners that touches some of the text but the book is still completely readable and otherwise in acceptable condition.

Avon Books, 1982. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

VG+ / VG-. 1947 Scribners, first edition (with "A"). Hardcover with dust jacket. Book is in good shape. Dust jacket shows wear along flap & spine folds + has a light stain near the spine edge. Basis for the 1949 Mervyn Leroy film starring James Mason and Barbara Stanwyck.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy in a Near Fine Jacket. $3.00 On Flap. First Edition(A) in Copyright. Excellent Copy of Her Classic Book..

Popular Library, 1947. Good. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. First editions. 5 vols. 8vo. Original cloth without dust jackets. Two titles with some minor rubbing, else Near Fine. First editions. 5 vols. 8vo. Marcia Davenport (1903-1996), daughter of soprano Alma Gluck (and the step-daughter of violinist Efrem Zimbalist) was raised in cosmopolitan circles and educated at Wellesley and in France. She was an early staff writer at the New Yorker, and in the Thirties was a music critic. At Scribner's her editor was Maxwell Perkins and her first book was a well-received biography of Mozart familiar to all lovers of Mozart. Her novel The Valley of Decision was a best-seller and was filmed. During World War II she worked for the Czechoslovak cause and from 1945 she divided her time between New York and Prague until the Communist coup d'etat in 1948 Marcia Davenport began to learn Czech during the war; her teacher was Otto Kraus, attached to the Czechoslovak consulate in New York (and later commercial attaché during the brief… Read More