THE SALAMANDER

by Owen Johnson, Everett Shinn, novel, illustrations

$2,500 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1914. First Edition. First Printing of Johnson's influential novel - the first book to feature a flapper as a protagonist, and the inspiration for Zelda Fitzgerald's glamorous and destructive life. Johnson described a few breed of women, the salamanders, who rejected domesticity for the intoxication of city life, where they patronized speakeasies and had affairs in a fashion

• Printing: first

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