The White Monkey
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. First American Edition. Cloth. 8vo, purple cloth with gold spine lettering, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with depiction of a white monkey, [i-vi} + vi-viii + 328 pages. Near Fine / Very Good +. Item #2117
John Galsworthy OM (1867 – 1933) was a famous English novlist. The White Monkey is the first book in the second trilogy which comprises John Galsworthy"s Forsyte Saga; that is, this is the fourth book in the series, and the first in the Modern Comedy trilogy. The Forsyte Saga (1906-21) and its sequels are considered Galsworthy's masterwork(s). The author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
NEAR FINE COPY overall: tight, clean, with minor flaws to cloth and the dust jacket, which is slightly soiled.
Cloth has slight soil and lightly bumped corners. A few chips lost to upper and lower portions of dust jacket along the spine and light stains to rear panel.
Price: $95.00