"Rain In The Doorway" 1933 SMITH, Thorne The London Owl Company

"Rain In The Doorway" 1933 SMITH, Thorne The London Owl CompanySMITH, Thorne [304] pp. The Sun Dial Press 1933 7 3 4" x 5 5 8" w drawings by Roese A lawyer with an unfaithful wife finds salvation becoming a partner in the maddest department store anyone could imagine, drinking like a fish and finding love with Miss Honou Knightley, custodian of the store's pornographic books department. Another wondrous American Thirties farce from Thorne Smith.

and rustic wine bars barely known outside the quarter to bustling brasseries

w/ Red & Green Leg Panels

This edition is limited to 150 copies

the President of Gilmore Steel

John Betjeman and other artistic and literary figures

A fascinating chronicle of eight decades rich in history

inside story

the style is simple with a few touches

In custom Sangorski & Sutcliffe/ Zaehnsdorf clamshell slipcase w/ morocco leather gilt spine

Sz: 2 1/4"H x 2"D

*dent to lower left corner/ base of spine*

but an intransigent passion for beauty as much as a pitiless insolence isolated this arbiter of poetic and social elegance in the midst of the fin-de-siecle festival