Barnes, Margaret Ayer

Westward Passage

Hardcover, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company/The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1931. First Edition. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. "Mrs. Barnes's second novel is completely different and even more powerful the 'Years of Grace' (which won a Pulitzer Prize) . Instead of covering forty years, it concentrates on seven crucial days in a woman's middle years when she meets, on a westbound liner, the man she had married and divorced years before..." -from the front flap. Ships same or next business day. Free endpaper has a gift inscription not by the author. Spine skewed and loose, back board has a few small white spots, normal shelf and edge wear, pages are tanned. Otherwise, the book is free of major defects. Dust jacket has tears, chips, tanning, large chips along head edge. Protected in an archival cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 323 pages. [Item #59497]

Price: $24.00