Description
Signed first edition of A Good Woman by Louis Bromfield.
Octavo, 432pp. Red cloth, title in gilt on front cover and spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Slight lean to text block, some wear to cloth along hinges. Bookplate removed from front free endpaper. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $2.50 retail price, soiled with a dampstain to rear panel. A few short closed tears, jacket held intact by tape repairs to verso.
Inscribed by the author on the half-title: “For — with the good wishes of Louis Bromfield.”
A Good Woman was Bromfield’s first publication following his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Early Autumn (1926). Despite his successful literary career, Bromfield spent the majority of his life as an early champion of sustainable farming and organic agriculture.
