The House of Silk

by Audrey Wurdemann

$80 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

New York: Howard Vinal, 1927. First Edition. Slim octavo 23.5cm. ; original cloth in printed dust jacket; 85pp. A fine, bright copy in crisp dustwrapper with a brief, closed tear on rear panel, quite Near Fine. The author's uncommon first book, published at the age of fifteen. Wurdemann's second book, Bright Ambush, published eight years later, won the Pulitzer Prize, making her at 24 the

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