THE FOOL OF THE FAMILY

by Margaret Kennedy, Rockwell Kent, novel, design

$500 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. First American Edition. An early, popular work by the English novelist and playwright, a sequel to her wildly popular 1924 novel The Constant Nymph. Kennedy adapted the novel into a play in 1934, called Escape Me Never, which in turn was adapted for the screen twice: first in 1935 by Paul Czinner, and again by Peter Godfrey in 1947, starring Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino,

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