Good-Bye, Proud World

by Margaret Emerson Bailey

$50 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. First Edition. Octavo 21cm. ; original cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket; 8 ,408pp. Jacket extremities quite rubbed and worn, small chip at spine, old tape repair to spine end versos; Near Fine in Good or better jacket. Bailey's memoirs, though told in the third person, of growing up in turn-of-the-century Rhode Island.

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