The Joyous Pretender 1st retailer Edition Hardcover in Dust Jacket 1928 by Louise Ayres Garnett - fiction - novel - boyhood

Title: The Joyous Pretender

Author: Louise Ayres Garnett

Description: First Edition, first printing, October 1928. Green cloth boards with yellow lettering. Yellow topstain. Remnant of previous owner's book plate on ffep. Pages retailer clean and crisp. Dust jacket has a couple chips to tail of spine and fore-corners; a couple surface blemishes on spine; short tear and tiny chip on bottom edge of front panel; not price clipped ($2.00). DJ in clear archival sleeve. xi, 232 pp. 7.75 x 5.25 inches.

Louise Ayres Garnett (1877-1937) was a poet, playwright, composer and lyricist, and author of several children's books, her best known being The Muffin Shop and The Rhyming Ring. The Joyous Pretender was her only novel. She was a longtime resident of Evanston, Illinois, and was active in Chicago literary and musical circles.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Macmillan Company
Place: New York
Year: 1928

Language: English

ISBN: n/a

Keywords: fiction, novel, boyhood,