FOSTER, Maximilian.

£650 · Offered by Peter Harrington

Bubbles. First edition, with a bright example of the Mondrianesque jacket, of this novel following a small town girl as she seeks love - and wealth - on Wall Street at the tail end of the roaring twenties. Maximilian Foster (1871-1943) spent much of his career as a journalist for the Saturday Evening Post in New York. Newspaper advertisements for Bubbles appear in January 1929, around 8 months before the Wall Street Crash in October.

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