PTOMAINE STREET

by Carolyn Wells

$400 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

First edition

Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1921. First printing. First edition of Wells's parody of Sinclair Lewis's MAIN STREET, the story of a girl who moves to a small town of aesthetes and intellectuals. Fine in very good plus jacket. Item #52329 Wells was remarkably prolific, most productive as a mystery novelist and writer for children but also a poet and the author of

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