Dance Night
New York: A.L. Burt Company, (1930). Reprint. Hardcover. Tim Page, a critic and the author of Dawn Powell : A Biography, said of Powell "Some critics thought she was mean. All the very famous women writers were usually ending their stories with a man and a woman falling in love and living happily thereafter. Dawn had seen enough of life to realize, well, sometimes that's the case but it's not what usually happens in the world." Orange cloth over boards, title printed in black onto upper board and spine, top edge stained orange, 12mo (7-1/4 inches [18.5 cm] tall), pp. 298, with A.L. Burt's device on the title page and Farrar & Rinehart's device above "Copyright, 1930, by Dawn Powell" on the copyright page. Credited DJ artwork by "Cracy", DJ verso has a printed list of Burt's Popular Copyright Fiction. Volume board edges with very slight wear and a few tiny bumps, endpapers toned from binder's glue, else unmarked. DJ with edge wear and chips, spine panel has a small puncture and fading to pink color of lantern. Near Fine / Good. Item #2123
"Dance Night" was Powell's favorite of her own novels and remains a very difficult title to find in DJ - even as a reprint. In 1986, Gore Vidal published an article in The New York Review of Books which praised Powell as one of American literature's lost greats.
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