Description
The first edition, third printing of Venus on Wheels by Maurice Dekobra.
Octavo, xii, 235pp. Red cloth, title stamped in black ink. Stated “third printing” on copyright page. Thumb mark to front cover, internally clean. In the publisher’s dust jacket, lacking the $2.50 retail price from the first state dust jacket, faint sunning to spine, a bright and attractive art-deco dust jacket. Scarce in dust jacket.
The first edition of Venus on Wheels by French author Maurice Dekobra (pseudo. Ernest-Maurice Tessier), was published in New York by The Macaulay Company. The first English edition appeared the same year, published in London by T. Werner Laurie LTD.
