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WYLIE, ELINOR. The Venetian Glass Nephew. New York: George H. Doran, 1925. 1st trade ed. 8vo. [10], 9-182 pp. Orig. cloth, spine darkened. Front inner hinge weak. $200.00

 

BAL 23505. Inscribed in ink by the author, who died in 1928 at age forty-three: "Maxwell Bodenheim/from Elinor Wylie." Bodenheim, the American novelist, was ten years Wylie's junior. Best known as a poet, this was Wylie's second novel, sometimes called a philosophical fairy tale.